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Epstein-Barr virus in pyothorax-associated pleural lymphoma.
The American journal of pathology - 1 Oct 1993
Fukayama M, Ibuka T, Hayashi Y, Ooba T, Koike M, Mizutani S
Abstract excerpt
Pleural B-cell lymphoma was found in five patients with a history of pyothorax that was the sequelae of tuberculosis 35 to 47 years previously. Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) DNA was detected in all five pleural tumors by polymerase chain reaction and Southern blot hybridization. The lymphoma cells were shown to express the latent membrane protein-1 and the EBV-encoded nuclear antigen-2 by immunocytochemistry and...
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