A tailored health surveillance program unveils a case of MALT lymphoma in an HCV-positive health-care worker

Oncology Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 651-654

  Rapisarda, Venerando ^a   Marconi, Andrea ^a   Candido, Saverio ^a   Nicolosi, Daria ^a   Salmeri, Mario ^a   Gangemi, Pietro ^b   Proietti, Lidia ^a   Spandidos, Demetrios A ^c   Bracci, Massimo ^d   Fenga, Cettina ^e   Libra, Massimo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^d UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Health care worker; Hepatitis; Non hodgkin lymphoma; Surveillance; Virus

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN BCL 2;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CANCER GROWTH; CELL EXPANSION; CELL TRANSFORMATION; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN GENE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; INFECTION RISK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MARGINAL ZONE LYMPHOMA; PREVALENCE;

EID: 84871597987     PISSN: 17921074     EISSN: 17921082     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3892/ol.2012.1028     Document Type: Article

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