Clinicopathological analysis of a composite lymphoma containing both T- and B-cell lymphomas

Pathology International

Volumn 62, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 690-698

  Suefuji, Nobuko ^a   Niino, Daisuke ^a   Arakawa, Fumiko ^a   Karube, Kennosuke ^b   Kimura, Yoshizo ^a   Kiyasu, Junichi ^a   Takeuchi, Masanori ^a   Miyoshi, Hiroaki ^a   Yoshida, Maki ^a   Ichikawa, Ayako ^a   Sugita, Yasuo ^a   Ohshima, Koichi ^a  

^a KURUME UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b AICHI CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

AITL; Composite lymphoma; DLBCL; EBV; IgH; TCR

Indexed keywords

CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOXORUBICIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN; PREDNISONE; RITUXIMAB; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR; VINCRISTINE;

ANGIOIMMUNOBLASTIC T CELL LYMPHOMA; ARTICLE; B CELL LYMPHOMA; CELL CLONE; CHRONIC LYMPHATIC LEUKEMIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPOSITE LYMPHOMA; CYTOGENETICS; EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FOLLICULAR LYMPHOMA; FOLLOW UP; GENE REARRANGEMENT; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LARGE CELL LYMPHOMA; LENNERT LYMPHOMA; LYMPHOCYTOMA; LYMPHOMA; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMALL LYMPHOCYTIC LYMPHOMA; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; SUBCUTANEOUS T CELL LYMPHOMA; T CELL LEUKEMIA; T CELL LYMPHOMA;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; COMPOSITE LYMPHOMA; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GENE REARRANGEMENT, B-LYMPHOCYTE; GENE REARRANGEMENT, T-LYMPHOCYTE; HERPESVIRUS 4, HUMAN; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAINS; JAPAN; LYMPHOMA, B-CELL; LYMPHOMA, T-CELL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROGNOSIS; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL; RNA, VIRAL;

EID: 84866759775     PISSN: 13205463     EISSN: 14401827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1827.2012.02858.x     Document Type: Article

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