lymphoma Definition
lym·phoma (lim fō′mə)
lymphoma Usage Examples
Preposition: of
- gland: AB - PURPOSE: We undertook this retrospective study to describe the sonographic findings in patients with malignant lymphoma of the major salivary glands.
- bone: Primary non-Hodgkin's lymphoma of bone: a clinicopathological investigation of 60 cases.
Converse of object
- relapse: PATIENTS AND METHODS: Pentostatin was administered to 28 patients who had relapsed cutaneous T-cell lymphoma or peripheral T-cell lymphoma with prominent cutaneous disease.
- treat: There is research going on into injecting the chemotherapy drug methotrexate directly into the eyeball to treat lymphoma of the eye.
- associate: Lymphoma associated with Sjögren's syndrome can be treated.
Adjective modifier
- follicular: Protocol amendment to the gene therapy trial in follicular lymphoma using a DNA vaccine.
- cutaneous: AB - Sezary syndrome is a rare form of primary cutaneous T cell lymphoma.
- anaplastic: AB - The presentation of anaplastic large cell lymphoma in bone is uncommon.
- lymphoblastic: This case of post-transplant MG is only the second reported to have occurred in association with BMT for lymphoblastic lymphoma.
- malignant: AB - Bowel perforation in patients with primary malignant lymphoma usually occurs at the site of tumor.
- AIDS-related: No regimen is currently considered the standard of therapy for patients with relapsed AIDS-related lymphoma, and survival is short in this setting.
Modifies a noun
- assay: COM post meeting consideration of additional mouse lymphoma assay 20.
- cell: There are now no measurable lymphoma cells in the blood.
- patient: The disease free interval for lymphoma patients varies from 3 months to 4 years.
Noun used with modifier
- B-cell: CONCLUSIONS: A major step forward was achieved for South African children with B-cell lymphoma.
- T-cell: Antibodies in human sera reactive against an internal structural protein of human T-cell lymphoma virus.
- non-hodgkin: In a 53 year old patient FDG-PET was performed after chemotherapy of an abdominal Non-Hodgkin lymphoma for evaluation of persistent tumor vitality.
- large-cell: Two cases were correctly identified as HD, although in one, the possibility of anaplastic large-cell lymphoma could not be ruled out.
- low-grade: Apoptosis is an important biological factor in low-grade lymphomas, and NO is able to prevent apoptosis.
- effusion: KSHV may also cause two lymphoproliferative diseases: multicentric Castleman's disease and primary effusion lymphoma.
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