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Development of donor-derived prostate cancer in a recipient following orthotopic heart transplantation.
JAMA - 8 Jan 1997
Loh E, Couch F J, Hendricksen C, Farid L, Kelly P F, Acker M A, Tomaszewski J E, Malkowicz S B, Weber B L
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: To report the development of metastatic prostate cancer in a heart transplant recipient without a primary focus in the recipient prostate gland; to present genetic evidence suggesting transplantation of the malignancy from the donor. DESIGN: Histological analysis of donor prostate and recipient prostate and rib. Molecular genetic analysis of prostate and kidney tissue from the donor and peripheral...
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