Hepatitis C Virus Infection in Patients With Overt B-Cell Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma in a French Center

Georgios Germanidis, Corinne Haïoun, Jérôme Pourquier, Philippe Gaulard, Jean–Michel Pawlotsky, Daniel Dhumeaux, Félix Reyes

Blood · 1999 · 74 citations · 14 references

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Abstract

To the Editor: Hepatitis C virus (HCV) has been shown to be the main etiologic agent of type II mixed cryoglobulinemia (MC),[1][1] [2][2] a disease associated with an underlying B-cell clonal proliferation, predisposing to B-cell malignancy, in 2% to 11% of the cases.[3][3] Italian studies have

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