Complete blood counts Serum beta2-microglobulin Serum albumin Serum protein electrophoresis Quantification of IgG, IgA, and IgM Serum and urine immunofixation Bone marrow biopsy and immunophenotypic studies CT scan of the…
Fig. 1 (a) Top: cytology on a fine-needle aspiration. Note the 2 mitotic figures. Botton: H&E stain of a lymph node biopsy showing BL. (b) Top: CD20, middle Ki67 immunohistochemistry….
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015Jean-Pierre Droz, Bernard Carme, Pierre Couppié, Mathieu Nacher and Catherine Thiéblemont (eds.)Tropical Hemato-Oncology10.1007/978-3-319-18257-5_22 Diagnosis of Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma Kikkeri Naresh1 , Martine Raphaël2 , Elisabeth Auberger3 and Jessie Githanga4 (1) Department of Pathology, The Hammersmith Hospital/Imperial College,…
Fig. 1 Age-standardized incidence of cancer (all sites) in different tropical areas in 2008 Fig. 2 Age-standardized incidence of selected types of cancer in different tropical areas in 2008 For…
Fig. 1 Type C retroviral particles in the extracellular spaces of a CD4 + lymphoid cell line infected by HTLV-1. The cell line has been established from a long-term culture in presence…
Fig. 1 Gastric pathologies induced by Helicobacter pylori infection At the cellular level, H. pylori infection leads to a Th1 immune response and to a chronic gastritis, followed by an…
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015Jean-Pierre Droz, Bernard Carme, Pierre Couppié, Mathieu Nacher and Catherine Thiéblemont (eds.)Tropical Hemato-Oncology10.1007/978-3-319-18257-5_18 Epidemiology and Mechanism of Carcinogenesis of Schistosomiasis Birgitte Jyding Vennervald1 (1) Section for Parasitology and Aquatic Diseases, Faculty of Health and…
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015Jean-Pierre Droz, Bernard Carme, Pierre Couppié, Mathieu Nacher and Catherine Thiéblemont (eds.)Tropical Hemato-Oncology10.1007/978-3-319-18257-5_1 Oncology in the Concept of Tropical Medicine: To Be or Not to Be? Bernard Carme1 (1) Parasitology and Tropical Medicine,…
(1) Department of Geography, Paris Est Créteil University (UPEC), Paris, France KeywordsLDCsEmerging countriesSocio-economic contextMalignant diseases The tropical area is the hot and humid part of the world. It does…
Fig. 1 Incidence of the top cancers per HDI The lifestyles in many developing countries in the tropics are in a state of transition from traditional to “modern,” with its…
