Should CLIPPERS be considered a prelymphoma state or a new inflammatory disease?

JAMA Neurology

Volumn 70, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 1200-1201

  Taieb, Guillaume ^a   Renard, Dimitri ^a   Labauge, Pierre ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF NEUROLOGY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RITUXIMAB; STEROID;

B CELL LYMPHOMA; BRAIN BIOPSY; CHRONIC LYMPHOCYTIC INFLAMMATION WITH PONTINE PERIVASCULAR ENHANCEMENT RESPONSIVE TO STEROID; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DRUG RESPONSE; EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS INFECTION; FATALITY; FROZEN SECTION; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; INFLAMMATORY INFILTRATE; LETTER; LYMPHOCYTIC INFILTRATION; LYMPHOMATOID GRANULOMATOSIS; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIMARY CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM LYMPHOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL TIME;

EID: 84883803226     PISSN: 21686149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jamaneurol.2013.3652     Document Type: Letter

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