Small cells lung epidermoid carcinoma in a HTLV1-infected patient: case report and literature review

The human T cell lymphotropic virus type 1 (HTLV-1) is the first human retrovirus discovered. Since then, it has spread worldwide and is mainly associated with adult T cell leukemia/lymphoma (ATLL) and HTLV1-associated myelopathy (HAM). Its relationship, however, with other types of cancer is contro...

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Autores principales: Dahy, Flávia Esper, Palhares, Renata Basic, Assone, Tatiane, Smid, Jerusa, de Moura, João Victor Luisi, Haziot, Michel E. J., Marcusso, Rosa Maria N., de Oliveira, Augusto César Penalva, Casseb, Jorge
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Instituto de Medicina Tropical 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8075617/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33909849
http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S1678-9946202163035
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Sumario:The human T cell lymphotropic virus type 1 (HTLV-1) is the first human retrovirus discovered. Since then, it has spread worldwide and is mainly associated with adult T cell leukemia/lymphoma (ATLL) and HTLV1-associated myelopathy (HAM). Its relationship, however, with other types of cancer is controversial. We describe the case of a patient presenting with small cells lung epidermoid carcinoma who had recently developed HAM, and a review of the literature related to these conditions. This is the first case of this type of lung cancer, the same of the first description in the literature, associated with HAM outside Japan.

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