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Identification of common germinal-center B-cell precursors in two patients with both Hodgkin's disease and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
The New England journal of medicine - 22 Apr 1999
Bräuninger A, Hansmann M L, Strickler J G, Dummer R, Burg G, Rajewsky K, Küppers R
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Hodgkin's disease and non-Hodgkin's B-cell lymphoma occasionally occur in the same patient. The identification of a common precursor of the two types of lymphoma would show definitively that Reed-Sternberg cells originate from B cells. METHODS: We studied lymphomas from two patients, one with a composite lymphoma (classic Hodgkin's disease and a follicular lymphoma in the same lymph node) and the...
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