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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.
Blood - 23 Apr 2009
Au Wing-yan, Weisenburger Dennis D, Intragumtornchai Tanin, Nakamura Shigeo, Kim Won-Seog, Sng Ivy, Vose Julie, Armitage James O, Liang Raymond
Abstract excerpt
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 Western countries and in Continental Asia than in Japan. There were no differences in age, sex, ethnicity, or...
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