The natural history of intravascular lymphomatosis
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The natural history of intravascular lymphomatosis
Intravascular lymphomatosis (IVL) is a rare and clinically devastating form of extranodal B-cell non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. We performed a comprehensive analysis of the literature on IVL's published between 1959 and 2011 and evaluated the natural history as well as identified prognostic and predictive factors in patients. Nonparametric two-tailed Mann-Whitney U-test and Mantel-Cox log rank test we...
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عنوان ژورنال: Cancer Medicine
سال: 2014
ISSN: 2045-7634,2045-7634
DOI: 10.1002/cam4.269