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Nasal T/natural killer (NK)-cell lymphomas are derived from Epstein-Barr virus-infected cytotoxic lymphocytes of both NK- and T-cell lineage.
International journal of cancer - 4 Nov 1997
Chiang A K, Chan A C, Srivastava G, Ho F C
Abstract excerpt
The cellular nature of nasal T/natural killer (NK)-cell lymphomas (NLs) remains controversial. It is still debatable whether these represent T-cell lymphomas with extensive loss of surface antigens or are, in fact, true NK-cell lymphomas. They are associated closely with Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), to the extent that EBV-encoded small non-polyadenylated RNAs (EBER) expression can be used as a marker for the...
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