Intravascular Lymphoma: A Diagnostic Enigma
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One of the rare variants of extranodal large B-cell lymphoma is intravascular large B-cell lymphoma (IVLBCL). Characteristics of IVLBCL include intraluminal selective proliferation of atypical lymphoid cells in small to medium-sized vessels. The etiologic of IVLBCL is unknown, but due to the growth pattern of this tumor, it is speculated that IVLBCL is caused by a defect in homing receptor of t...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine
سال: 2002
ISSN: 0141-0768,1758-1095
DOI: 10.1177/014107680209500112