Multiple brain tumors of diffuse large B cell lymphoma in a patient with Waldenström's macroglobulinemia/lymphoplasmacytic lymphoma: PCR and DNA sequence analysis show evidence of differences in clonality of the two B cell malignancies

Internal Medicine

Volumn 43, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 990-996

  Tojo, Kana ^a,b   Hattori, Takeshi ^b   Ito, Toshiro ^a   Asano, Naoko ^a   Sano, Kenji ^a   Suzuki, Takefumi ^a   Maruyama, Keiko ^b  

^a SHINSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Suwa Red Cross Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Brain tumor; Clonality; Diffuse large B cell lymphoma; Immunoglobulin heavy chain complementarity determining region III; Polymerase chain reaction; Waldenstr m's macroglobulinemia lymphoplasmacytic lymphoma

Indexed keywords

COTRIMOXAZOLE; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; METHOTREXATE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PARAFFIN; PREDNISOLONE;

AGED; ARTICLE; B CELL LYMPHOMA; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BRAIN TUMOR; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; CLONAL VARIATION; DNA SEQUENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOELECTROPHORESIS; MALE; PNEUMONIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RARE DISEASE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SUBCUTANEOUS NODULE; WALDENSTROEM MACROGLOBULINEMIA;

AGED; B-LYMPHOCYTES; BONE MARROW; BRAIN; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CLONE CELLS; FATAL OUTCOME; HEMATOLOGIC NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LYMPHOMA, B-CELL; LYMPHOMA, LARGE-CELL, DIFFUSE; LYMPHOMA, SMALL LYMPHOCYTIC; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPINE; WALDENSTROM MACROGLOBULINEMIA;

EID: 8844230285     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.43.990     Document Type: Article

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