Best Practice & Research Clinical Gastroenterology
Volume 24, Issue 1 , Pages 19-26 , February 2010

Role of chemotherapy in gastric MALT lymphoma, diffuse large B-cell lymphoma and other lymphomas

  • Markus Raderer

      Affiliations

    • Department of Internal Medicine I, Division of Oncology, Medical University Vienna, Waehringer Guertel 18–20, A-1090 Vienna, Austria
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author.
  • ,
  • Jan Paul de Boer

      Affiliations

    • Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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doi: 10.1016/j.bpg.2009.11.001

Best Practice & Research Clinical Gastroenterology
Volume 24, Issue 1 , Pages 19-26 , February 2010