Splenic marginal zone lymphoma: hydra with many heads?
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Splenic marginal zone lymphoma: hydra with many heads?
In this issue of the Journal, Baseggio et al. 1 report on a series of 24 patients with CD5-positive, t(11;14)-negative splenic marginal zone lymphoma (SMZL) diagnosed by means of cytology and flow cytometry of peripheral blood. All the patients were splenectomized at diagnosis or during follow-up and, consequently, spleen specimens were available for histological examination in all cases. The b...
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عنوان ژورنال: Haematologica
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0390-6078,1592-8721
DOI: 10.3324/haematol.2009.021576