Treatment of primary intraocular lymphoma with rituximab, high dose methotrexate, procarbazine, and vincristine chemotherapy, reduced whole-brain radiotherapy, and local ocular therapy

British Journal of Haematology

Volumn 157, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 252-254

  Taoka, Kazuki ^a   Yamamoto, Go ^a   Kaburaki, Toshikatsu ^b   Takahashi, Tsuyoshi ^a   Araie, Makoto ^b   Kurokawa, Mineo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chemotherapy; High dose methotrexate; Intravitreous methotrexate injection; Primary intraocular lymphoma; Reduced whole brain radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 6; METHOTREXATE; PROCARBAZINE; RITUXIMAB; VINCRISTINE;

ADULT; AGED; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; BRAIN LYMPHOMA; CANCER RELAPSE; CATARACT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONJUNCTIVITIS; CYTOLOGY; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; DRUG MEGADOSE; FEBRILE NEUTROPENIA; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTRAOCULAR LYMPHOMA; KERATITIS; LETTER; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; LYMPHOMA; MALE; MUCOSA INFLAMMATION; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUTROPENIA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RADIOTHERAPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL SYSTEM EXAMINATION; VITRECTOMY; WHOLE BRAIN RADIOTHERAPY;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL, MURINE-DERIVED; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; BRAIN; EYE NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHOMA; MALE; METHOTREXATE; MIDDLE AGED; PROCARBAZINE; RADIOTHERAPY; VINCRISTINE;

EID: 84859211208     PISSN: 00071048     EISSN: 13652141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2141.2011.08938.x     Document Type: Letter

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