Folia Neuropathologica

Successful treatment of central nervous system relapse of primary mediastinal large B-cell lymphoma with the R-MIV regimen: a case report

Marcin Jasiński 1
,
Krzysztof Domka 2
,
Emilia Wnuk 3
,
Małgorzata Kobylecka 4, 5
,
Wojciech Sachs 1
,
Błażej Izdebski 1
,
Krzysztof Jamroziak 1
,
Joanna Drozd-Sokołowska 1

  1. Department of Hematology, Transplantation and Internal Medicine, Medical University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland

  2. Department of Pathomorphology, University Clinical Centre, Medical University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland

  3. Second Department of Radiology, Medical University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland

  4. Department of Nuclear Medicine, Medical University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland

  5. Department of Nuclear Medicine, The National Institute of Medicine of the Ministry of the Interior and Administration, Warsaw, Poland

Folia Neuropathol 2026; 64

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5114/fn.2026.164750
Data publikacji online: 2026/10/07
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