Might periostin serve as a marker of bone marrow involvement in patients with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma?

Affiliations

Tekinalp Atakan: Division of Internal Medicine, Department of Hematology, Necmettin Erbakan University, Meram Faculty of Medicine, Konya, Türkiye
Kars Taha Ulutan: Division of Internal Medicine, Department of Hematology, Necmettin Erbakan University, Meram Faculty of Medicine, Konya, Türkiye
Tuna Ali Kürşat: Division of Internal Medicine, Department of Hematology, Necmettin Erbakan University, Meram Faculty of Medicine, Konya, Türkiye
Kılınç İbrahim: Division of Biochemistry, Necmettin Erbakan University,Meram Faculty of Medicine, Yunus Emre Neighborhood, Beyşehir Street, Konya, Türkiye
Demircioğlu Sinan: Division of Internal Medicine, Department of Hematology, Necmettin Erbakan University, Meram Faculty of Medicine, Konya, Türkiye
Çeneli Özcan: Division of Internal Medicine, Department of Hematology, Necmettin Erbakan University, Meram Faculty of Medicine, Konya, Türkiye

Abstract

We measured the serum periostin levels in patients with DLBCL and determined whether the levels reflected the clinical findings.