Table of Contents - Issue 1

VOLUME 4 | ISSUE 1 | FIRST QUARTER | 2011
Review :: Pages 1-9

Role of reduced intensity conditioning in allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation for patients with multiple myeloma

Taiga Nishihori,a Mohamed A. Kharfan-Dabaja,b Jose L. Ochoa-Bayona,a Ali Bazarbachi,b Marcelo Pasquini,c Melissa Alsinaa

From the aDepartment of Blood and Marrow Transplantation, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, USA, bDepartment of Internal Medicine, Division of Hematology-Oncology-BMT and Naef K. Basile Cancer Institute, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon, and the cMedical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.

Original Research Report :: Pages 10-16

Early versus late outset of lymphoproliferative disorders post-heart and lung transplantation: The PTLD.Int Survey

Hossein Khedmat,a Saeed Taherib

From aThe Internist Center, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences and bDr. Taheri Medical Research Group, Tehran, Iran

Original Research Report :: Pages 17-29

Cyclophosphamide plus total body irradiation compared with busulfan plus cyclophosphamide as a conditioning regimen prior to hematopoietic stem cell transplantation in patients with leukemia: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Tejpal Gupta, Sadhana Kannan, Vandana Dantkale, Siddharta Laskar

From the Advanced Centre for Treatment, Research and Education in Cancer, Tata Memorial Centre, Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra India

Original Research Report :: Pages 30-36

Age at transplantation and outcome after autologous stem cell transplantation in elderly patients with multiple myeloma

Jean El Cheikh, Elias Kfoury, Boris Calmels, Claude Lemarie, Anne-Marie Stoppa, Reda Bouabdallah, Diane Coso, Jean-Marc Schiano De Collela, Patrick Ladaique, Jean-Albert Gastaut, Mohamad Mohty, Christian Chabannon, Didier Blaise

From the Institut Paoli Calmettes, Marseille, France

Technical Note :: Pages 37-40

How we assess adequacy of fine-needle aspiration materials intended for flow cytometric analysis

Mohamed Brahimi, Abdessamad Arabi, Badra Enta Soltan, Soufi Osmani, Hanane Benradouane, Mohamed Bey, Nabile Yafour, Brahim Benzineb, Fadela Attaf, Ismaa Seddiki, Siham Rahal, Mohamed Amine Bekadja

From the Haematology and Cell Therapy Unit, Etablissement Hospitalier et Universitaire, Algeria

Case Report :: Pages 41-44

AIDS-related sinonasal Burkitt lymphoma successfully treated with intensive chemotherapy regimen and high active antiretroviral therapy

Gustavo Werutsky,a Gisele Pereira de Carvalho,a Vinicius Duval da Silva,b Bernardo Garicocheaa

From the aDepartment of Medical Oncology and bDepartment of Pathology, São Lucas Hospital, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil

Case Report :: Pages 45-47

Long-term survival of a patient with multiple abdominal metastasis from endometrial carcinoma treated with multi-portal conformal re-irradiation and chemotherapy

Michael I. Koukourakis, Aikaterini Papadopoulou, George Kyrgias

From the Democritus University of Thrace, Alexandroupolis, Greece

Letter to the Editor :: Pages 48-49

Romiplostim reverts the thrombocytopenia in dengue hemorrhagic fever

S. Margarita Rodríguez-Mejorada,a C. Gonzalo Rosel-Gómez,a Rilke A. Rosado-Castro,a Manuel Domingo-Padilla,a Guillermo J. Ruiz-Delgado,b-d

From the aClínica de Mérida, Yucatan, bLaboratorios Clínicos de Puebla, Clínica Ruiz, Puebla, cCentro de Hematología y Medicina Interna, Clínica Ruiz, Puebla, dUniversidad Popular Autónoma del Estado de Puebla, Puebla, México

Letter to the Editor :: Pages 49-50

Nasal extranodal peripheral NK/T-cell lymphoma treated by the protocol NK/T-cell high-dose-methoeotrexate L-asparaginase dexamethasone

Mohamed Amine Bekadja,a Hanane Benredouane,a José Audouin,b Djamila Mansouri,c Hamdane Mehadji,c Nabil Yafour,a Mohamed Brahimi,a Abdessamed Arabi,a Soufi Osmani,a Badra Entasoltanea

From the aService d’Hématologie et de Thérapie Cellulaire, EHU 1er Novembre Oran, Algérie, bService D’anatomie Pathologique, Hôtel Dieu, Paris, France, and cService ORL, EHU 1er November Oran, Algérie