Large B-cell lymphoma manifesting as an invasive cardiac mass: Sustained local remission after combination of methotrexate and rituximab

Leukemia and Lymphoma

Volumn 43, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 1485-1487

  Cohen, Yossi ^a   Daas, Na'el ^a   Libster, Diana ^a   Gillon, Dan ^a   Polliack, Aaron ^a  

^a HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Arrhythmia; Autologous SCT; Cardiac lymphoma; Extranodal lymphoma; NHL; Rituximab; Stem cell transplantation

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYTARABINE; DEXAMETHASONE; DOXORUBICIN; ETOPOSIDE; MELPHALAN; METHOTREXATE; PREDNISONE; QUINIDINE; RITUXIMAB; THIOTEPA; VINCRISTINE; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOTRANSPLANTATION; B CELL LYMPHOMA; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER REGRESSION; CANCER SIZE; CARDIOGENIC SHOCK; CASE REPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FATALITY; FEMALE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART METASTASIS; HEART MUSCLE; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; LEUKEMIA; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAINTENANCE THERAPY; NERVOUS SYSTEM TUMOR; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALVAGE THERAPY; SKIN METASTASIS; STOMACH CANCER; CANCER INVASION; HEART TUMOR; HISTIOCYTIC LYMPHOMA; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PERIPHERAL BLOOD STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; RECURRENT DISEASE; REMISSION;

ADULT; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; FEMALE; HEART NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LYMPHOMA, B-CELL; LYMPHOMA, LARGE-CELL; METHOTREXATE; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; PERIPHERAL BLOOD STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; RECURRENCE; REMISSION INDUCTION; SALVAGE THERAPY; TRANSPLANTATION, AUTOLOGOUS;

EID: 85047686171     PISSN: 10428194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1042819022386699     Document Type: Article

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