Dear Sir, Adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma (ATL) is a malignancy of mature T cells which develops among individuals infected with human T-cell lymphotropic virus type-1 (HTLV-1). ATL shows characteristic geographic distribution in the world, being endemic in south-western Japan, the Caribbean region,
Increase in incidence of adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma in non-endemic areas of Japan and the United States
โ Scribed by Dai Chihara; Hidemi Ito; Kota Katanoda; Akiko Shibata; Tomohiro Matsuda; Kazuo Tajima; Tomotaka Sobue; Keitaro Matsuo
- Book ID
- 117940878
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2012
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 140 KB
- Volume
- 103
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1347-9032
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