Clinical differences between nasal and extranasal natural killer/T-cell lymphoma: a study of 136 cases from the International Peripheral T-Cell Lymphoma Project

Au, Wing-Yan; D. Weisenburger, Dennis; Intragumtornchai, Tanin; Nakamura, Shigeo; Kim, Won-Seog; Sng, Ivy; M. Vose, Julie; O. Armitage, Jamés; Liang, Raymond; the International Peripheral T-Cell Lymphoma Project, for

doi:10.1182/blood-2008-10-185256

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Clinical differences between nasal and extranasal natural killer/T-cell lymphoma: a study of 136 cases from the International Peripheral T-Cell Lymphoma Project

Published in Blood • Nov 25, 2008

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Wing-Yan Au

Dennis D. Weisenburger

Tanin Intragumtornchai

Abstract

Among 1153 new adult cases of peripheral/T-cell lymphoma from 1990-2002 at 22 centers in 13 countries, 136 cases (11.8%) of extranodal natural killer (NK)/T-cell lymphoma were identified (nasal 68%, extranasal 26%, aggressive/unclassifiable 6%). The disease frequency was higher in Asian than in West...

Subject

Lymphoma

Medicine

T-cell lymphoma

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