Lymphoma, Diffuse Mixed: Multimedia

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Further Reading

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Suggested Reading

• Griffin TC, Weitzman S, Weinstein H, et al, and the Children's Oncology Group. A study of rituximab and ifosfamide, carboplatin, and etoposide chemotherapy in children with recurrent/refractory B-cell (CD20+) non-Hodgkin lymphoma and mature B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia: A report from the Children's Oncology Group. Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2009 Feb;52(2):177-81. [Medline].

Keywords

diffuse mixed lymphoma, diffuse mixed-cell lymphoma, diffuse mixed small and large cell lymphoma, diffuse undifferentiated lymphoma, intermediate grade lymphoma, diffuse small and large cell lymphoma, malignant lymphoma, diffuse mixed type, intermediate-grade lymphoma, mixed histiocytic-lymphocytic malignant lymphoma, mixed small and large cell lymphoma, diffuse mixed lymphomas, cancer, malignant histiocytes, malignant lymphocytes, lymphatic sarcoma, mixed lymphocytic-histiocytic

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