| hodgkin disease in adult and juvenile groups from two different geographic regions in brazil: characterization of clinicopathologic aspects and relationship with epstein-barr virus infection. | we analyzed clinicopathologic data, immunophenotype, and epstein-barr virus (ebv) status in 96 cases of hodgkin disease (hd) in juveniles (younger than 20 years) and adults (20 years or older) from 2 distinctive states in brazil. we studied 34 juvenile (group 1) and 16 adult (group 2) cases from ceara and 31 juvenile (group 3) and 15 adult (group 4) cases from são paulo. ceara has a socioeconomic profile similar to a developing country; são paulo is in better economic condition. mixed cellularit ... | 2002 | 12109852 |
| epstein-barr virus-associated gastric carcinoma in japanese brazilians and non-japanese brazilians in são paulo. | the proportion of epstein-barr virus-associated gastric carcinoma (ebv-gc) was examined in 149 japanese-brazilian and 151 non-japanese-brazilian gastric-carcinoma cases using in situ hybridization (ish) assay to detect ebv-encoded small rna (eber), and the results were compared with our referent japanese data. we found that 4.7% of cases in japanese brazilians were eber-positive. this frequency was slightly lower than that of the referent japanese, among whom 6.2% of 2038 gastric-carcinoma cases ... | 2001 | 11572757 |
| epstein-barr virus infections in brazil. ii. hodgkin's disease. | sixty-seven cases of hodgkin's disease (hd) occurring in são paulo, brazil, were studied. males with hd predominated over females 2.3 to 1. sixty-six percent of the cases occurred in patients under 30 years of age, 31.7% under 20 years of age, and only 7.5% after 50 years of age. lymphocyte predominance and mixed cellularity histologic types were most common in patients less than 15 years old, and nodular sclerosis was most common in the 15- to 19-year-old group. sera from all patients had antib ... | 1978 | 209202 |
| etiologies of rash and fever illnesses in campinas, brazil. | few population-based studies of infectious etiologies of fever-rash illnesses have been conducted. this study reports on enhanced febrile-rash illness surveillance in campinas, brazil, a setting of low measles and rubella virus transmission. | 2011 | 21954258 |
| post-transplant lymphoproliferative disorders (ptld) after renal transplantation: management and evolution of seven cases among 1002 renal transplants in são paulo, brazil. | we reported seven cases (0.7%) of ptld among 1002 renal transplants performed at renal transplant service from hospital são paulo-universidade federal de são paulo/escola paulista de medicina, são paulo, brazil, between 1976 and 1997. there were three male and four female patients with median age of 37 year-old. according to ann arbor staging system there were four localized extra-nodal intermediate-grade nhl, one disseminated low-grade nhl and two polyclonal lymphoid hyperplasia. four patients ... | 2000 | 10975393 |
| epstein-barr virus infection and gastric carcinoma in são paulo state, brazil. | epstein-barr virus (ebv) is a ubiquitous herpesvirus, and most people have serological evidence of previous viral infection at adult age. ebv is associated with infectious mononucleosis and human cancers, including some lymphomas and gastric carcinomas. although ebv was first reported in lymphoepithelioma-like gastric carcinoma, the virus was also found in conventional adenocarcinomas. in the present study, 53 gastric carcinomas diagnosed in são paulo state, brazil, were evaluated for ebv infect ... | 2004 | 15517087 |
| impact of epstein-barr virus in the clinical evolution of patients with classical hodgkin's lymphoma in brazil. | classical hodgkin's lymphoma (chl) has been frequently associated with epstein-barr virus (ebv), which can be found in a latent pattern in reed-sternberg (rs) cells. however, the impact of the presence of ebv in rs cells and its prognosis are still controversial. we analysed the presence of ebv in rs cells and its influence in the clinical evolution of patients with chl treated in two public hospitals in the city of são paulo, brazil. | 2010 | 20128016 |
| detection of epstein-barr virus in children and adolescents with burkitt's lymphoma by in situ hybridization using tissue microarrays. | in this retrospective study, we evaluated 53 patients diagnosed with burkitt's lymphoma (bl). patients were admitted to the pediatric department of santa casa de são paulo, brazil from august 1988 to september 2006. the male gender was found more frequently in the proportion of three males to one female. at the time of the diagnosis, the mean age was 6 years. the most frequent clinical presentation was abdominal (extra nodal) in 42 (79.2%) cases. the patients were treated with chemotherapy using ... | 2008 | 18616879 |