## Centre d'Information et de Soins included because of their public health and social implications. For instance, after the inclusion of invasive cervi-de l'Immunodeficience Humaine Centre Hospitalier Universitaire cal carcinoma (ICC) among the AIDS-defining diseases in 1993, 6 only 1.9% of adult
Primary gastric T-cell lymphoma with and without human T-lymphotropic virus type 1
โ Scribed by Motoko Shimada-Hiratsuka; Masashi Fukayama; Yukiko Hayashi; Tomonori Ushijima; Miwako Suzuki; Tsunekazu Hishima; Nobuaki Funata; Morio Koike; Toshiki Watanabe
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1997
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 1007 KB
- Volume
- 80
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0008-543X
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โฆ Synopsis
serology, Southern blot hybridization, and polymerase chain reaction analysis.
RESULTS.
Five of the 67 cases were T-cell lymphoma (7%): 3 cases were HTLV-1
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