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Clinicopathologic study of nasal T/NK-cell lymphoma among the Japanese.
Pathology international - 1 Jan 1997
Nakamura S, Katoh E, Koshikawa T, Yatabe Y, Nagasaka T, Ishida H, Tokoro Y, Koike K, Kagami Y, Ogura M, Kojima M, Nara Y, Mizoguchi Y, Hara K, Kurita S, Seto M, Suchi T
Abstract excerpt
A high prevalence of nasal lymphoma expressing a T- or natural killer (NK)-cell phenotype (NTCL) with frequent association of Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) has been indicated in Asians. To characterize NTCL among the Japanese, the clinicopathologic features of 32 cases were evaluated and the cases were also analyzed for EBV-RNA using an ISH method. Morphologically, 31 cases were identified by atypical pleomorphic...
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