The Maze of Diagnosing Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis: Single-Center Experience of a Series of 6 Clinical Cases

Oncology (Switzerland)

Volumn 92, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 173-178

  Hanoun, Maher ^a   Dührsen, Ulrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Diagnosis; Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis; Therapy

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; BRENTUXIMAB VEDOTIN; CISPLATIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DEXAMETHASONE; ETOPOSIDE; FERRITIN; GEMCITABINE; OX40 LIGAND; PREDNISONE;

ACUTE MYELOID LEUKEMIA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ADULT ONSET STILL DISEASE; AGED; ARTICLE; ASCITES; ATOPIC DERMATITIS; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; CELL POPULATION; CELL SELECTION; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CROHN DISEASE; CYTOPENIA; EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS INFECTION; ERYTHROPHAGOCYTOSIS; FEMALE; FEVER; HEMOPHAGOCYTIC SYNDROME; HEPATOSPLENIC T CELL LYMPHOMA; HUMAN; HYPERTRIGLYCERIDEMIA; HYPOFIBRINOGENEMIA; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; LABORATORY TEST; LEUKEMIA REMISSION; LIVER BIOPSY; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; MIDDLE AGED; MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROME; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERIPHERAL T CELL LYMPHOMA; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PLEOCYTOSIS; PLEURA EFFUSION; SPLENOMEGALY; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; T CELL LYMPHOMA; ULTRASOUND; VIRUS REACTIVATION; X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; CASE REPORT; LYMPHOHISTIOCYTOSIS, HEMOPHAGOCYTIC;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHOHISTIOCYTOSIS, HEMOPHAGOCYTIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 85008384558     PISSN: 00302414     EISSN: 14230232     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000454733     Document Type: Article

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