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 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 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 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…
(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…
© 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_7 Pathology and Cancer Research Joyce Balagadde-Kambugu1, Lynnette Kyokunda Tumwine2 and Jackson Orem3 (1) Pediatric Oncology Service, Research and Training Directorate, Uganda Cancer Institute,…
Fig. 4.1 Low- and middle-income countries by the World Bank income category, 2004—all tropical countries fall in this category (Source: Data from the World Bank (2005)) 2 What Is Cancer…
