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The Association of Epstein–Barr Virus with Smooth-Muscle Tumors Occurring after Organ Transplantation
5 Jan 1995
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) has been associated with nasopharyngeal carcinoma, some lymphomas, and lymphoproliferative disease after organ transplantation. Many lymphoproliferative tumors that occur after transplantation are clonal, a property that classifies them as neoplastic. Clonality can be determined by analysis of the extrachromosomal circular DNA episomes produced by EBV infection. METHODS: We...
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