Peripheral T-cell lymphomas of follicular T-helper cell derivation with Hodgkin/reed-sternberg cells of B-cell lineage: Both EBV-positive and EBV-negative variants exist

American Journal of Surgical Pathology

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 816-826

  Nicolae, Alina ^a   Pittaluga, Stefania ^a   Venkataraman, Girish ^b   Vijnovich Baron, Anahi ^c   Xi, Liqiang ^a   Raffeld, Mark ^a   Jaffe, Elaine S ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b LOYOLA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c CEPACIT   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Angioimmunoblastic T cell lymphoma; CD279; Classical Hodgkin lymphoma; Epstein Barr virus; PD 1; Peripheral T cell lymphoma; T follicular helper cells

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS INFECTION; FEMALE; HELPER CELL; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOLOGY; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PERIPHERAL T CELL LYMPHOMA; REED STERNBERG CELL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; VERY ELDERLY; VIROLOGY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; EPSTEIN-BARR VIRUS INFECTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LYMPHOMA, T-CELL, PERIPHERAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REED-STERNBERG CELLS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; T-LYMPHOCYTES, HELPER-INDUCER;

EID: 84879096996     PISSN: 01475185     EISSN: 15320979     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PAS.0b013e3182785610     Document Type: Article

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