Carcinoma positive for Epstein-Barr virus staining. Mediastinal lymph node origination?
A 44-year-old man undergoing radical excision of metastatic carcinoma of the mediastinal lymph node with unknown primary sites remains alive and disease-free 14 years after surgery. His cancer cells were positive for the Epstein-Barr virus, which may have been related to the oncogenesis of this tumor. This case is unique in the patient's long, disease-free survival and its positive presence of the Epstein-Barr virus.
Masaki
Yoshitaka
Y
Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Secomedic Hospital, 1-696 Toyotomi, Funabashi, Chiba 274-0053, Japan.
Gomibuchi
Makoto
M
Tanaka
Shigeo
S
D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000821:virology*; D000328:Adult; D018572:Disease-Free Survival; D004854:Herpesvirus 4, Human / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008479:Mediastinal Neoplasms / Q000821:virology*