Deciphering genes associated with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma with lymphomatous effusions: A mutational accumulation scoring approach

• Main Authors: Sina Abdollahi (Author), Seyedeh Zahra Dehghanian (Author), Liang-Yi Hung (Author), Shiang-Jie Yang (Author), Dao-Peng Chen (Author), L. Jeffrey Medeiros (Author), Jung-Hsien Chiang (Author), Kung-Chao Chang (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2021-10-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Introduction Earlier studies have shown that lymphomatous effusions in patients with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) are associated with a very poor prognosis, even worse than for non-effusion-associated patients with stage IV disease. We hypothesized that certain genetic abnormalitie...