Bimodal age distribution in Hodgkin's disease and nasopharyngeal carcinoma

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 68, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1421-

  Barista, Ibrahim ^a   Varan, Ali ^a   Ozyar, Enis ^a  

^a HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LATENT MEMBRANE PROTEIN 1; ONCOPROTEIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS; HISTOLOGY; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMAN; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION; NASOPHARYNX CARCINOMA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TUMOR CELL; TUMOR CLASSIFICATION; VIRUS CARCINOGENESIS; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS GENOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; CARCINOMA; CELL TRANSFORMATION, NEOPLASTIC; EPSTEIN-BARR VIRUS INFECTIONS; HERPESVIRUS 4, HUMAN; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NASOPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; TIME FACTORS; VIRUS LATENCY;

EID: 33947699481     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2006.11.014     Document Type: Letter

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