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B cell malignancy and hepatitis C virus infection.
Leukemia - 1 Apr 1997
Izumi T, Sasaki R, Tsunoda S, Akutsu M, Okamoto H, Miura Y
Abstract excerpt
Italian authors report that hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection may be one of the causes of lymphoid malignancy such as non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL) and Waldenström's macroglobulinemia (WM). To assess the relationship between HCV infection and B cell malignancy (BCM) in Japan, we analyzed HCV-RNA in 50 patients with BCM [25 cases of NHL, 4 of WM and 21 of multiple myeloma (MM)] and determined genotype of infected...
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