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Ten-year-old boy with hemangiopericytoma and human immunodeficiency virus infection
J M Lauinger1, N Beadle, U Thisyakorn
1Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA.
The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal
|April 17, 2001
Abstract:
This report documents the first case of hemangiopericytoma in an HIV-infected child who is most likely a case of vertical transmission of HIV with slow progression to AIDS. We also raise the possibility that there is a causal relationship between HIV and hemangiopericytoma.