Serbian lymphoma study group: Demografic characteristics of 257 patients with follicular lymphoma
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Serbian lymphoma study group: demografic characteristics of 257 patients with follicular lymphoma.
BACKGROUND/AIM Follicular lymphoma (FL) is a B-cell tumor usually with indolent clinical course, yet in some cases the course of the disease can be very aggressive. The aim of the research was to determine distribution of patients into prognostic groups based on the International Prognostic Index (IPI) and Folicular Lymphoma International Prognostic Index (FLIPI) criteria, as well as to determi...
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عنوان ژورنال: Military Medical and Pharmaceutical Journal of Serbia
سال: 2015
ISSN: 0042-8450,2406-0720
DOI: 10.2298/vsp140115014s