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SUBMITTER: Shichijo T
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7724492 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Shichijo Takafumi T Maruyama Dai D Yamauchi Nobuhiko N Maeshima Akiko Miyagi AM Sugano Masato M Yuda Sayako S Tajima Kinuko K Kurihara Hiroaki H Shimada Kaoru K Suzuki Tomotaka T Toyoda Kosuke K Makita Shinichi S Fukuhara Suguru S Munakata Wataru W Suzuki Tatsuya T Kobayashi Yukio Y Taniguchi Hirokazu H Minami Yosuke Y Izutsu Koji K Tobinai Kensei K
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Although histologic analysis is the gold standard for diagnosing follicular lymphoma (FL) transformation, many patients are diagnosed with transformation by clinical factors as biopsy specimens often cannot be obtained. Despite the frequency of clinical diagnosis, no clinical assessment tool has yet been established for FL transformation in the rituximab era. We derived and validated a transformation scoring system (TSS) based on retrospective analyses of 126 patients with biopsy-proven FL and h ...[more]