Complete response to EPOCH in a patient with HIV and extracavitary primary effusion lymphoma involving the colon: A case report and review of literature

Clinical Lymphoma, Myeloma and Leukemia

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 144-147

  El Ayass, Walid ^a   Yu, Eun Mi ^b   Karcher, Donald S ^b   Aragon Ching, Jeanny B ^a  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

EPOCH; Extracavitary primary effusion lymphoma; Human immunodeficiency virus

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CD45 ANTIGEN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOXORUBICIN; ETOPOSIDE; HEPATITIS B SURFACE ANTIBODY; INTERFERON REGULATORY FACTOR 4; KI 67 ANTIGEN; LEUKOCYTE ANTIGEN; PREDNISONE; VINCRISTINE; VIRUS ANTIBODY;

ABDOMINAL TENDERNESS; ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CANCER REGRESSION; CASE REPORT; COLON TUMOR; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EDEMA; ENDOSCOPY; EPIGASTRIC DISCOMFORT; EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS; FEVER; HEART MUSCLE BIOPSY; HEPATITIS C; HEPATOMEGALY; HERPES VIRUS; HIGHLY ACTIVE ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTESTINE PERFORATION; KAPOSI SARCOMA; LAPAROTOMY; MALE; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; PANCYTOPENIA; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PERICARDITIS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIMARY EFFUSION LYMPHOMA; STOMACH DISTENSION; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOXORUBICIN; ETOPOSIDE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; LYMPHOMA, PRIMARY EFFUSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREDNISONE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VINCRISTINE;

EID: 84858961515     PISSN: 21522650     EISSN: 21522669     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clml.2011.12.003     Document Type: Article

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