Primary CNS lymphoma: A clinician's guide

Expert Review of Neurotherapeutics

Volumn 12, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1197-1206

  Schäfer, Niklas ^a   Glas, Martin ^a,b   Herrlinger, Ulrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BONN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

autologous stem cell transplantation; HD MTX; intraventricular therapy; lymphoma; neurotoxicity; PCNSL; polychemotherapy

Indexed keywords

CARMUSTINE; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYTARABINE; DOXORUBICIN; ETOPOSIDE; GELATINASE B; IFOSFAMIDE; MELPHALAN; METHOTREXATE; MICRORNA; OLIGOCLONAL BAND; PREDNISOLONE; PROCARBAZINE; PROTEIN; PROTEIN BCL 6; PROTEIN YKL 40; RITUXIMAB; STAT6 PROTEIN; STEROID; TOPOTECAN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VINCRISTINE;

ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; AUTOLOGOUS STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; BRAIN RADIATION; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER REGRESSION; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG MEGADOSE; FLUORESCENCE ACTIVATED CELL SORTING; HEMIPARESIS; HIGHLY ACTIVE ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; LONG TERM SURVIVAL; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PLEOCYTOSIS; PRIMARY CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM LYMPHOMA; PROGRESSION FREE SURVIVAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; STEREOTACTIC BIOPSY;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; ANTIMETABOLITES, ANTINEOPLASTIC; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM NEOPLASMS; CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; LYMPHOMA; LYMPHOMA, LARGE B-CELL, DIFFUSE; LYMPHOMA, NON-HODGKIN; METHOTREXATE; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 84867790961     PISSN: 14737175     EISSN: 17448360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/ern.12.120     Document Type: Review

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