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Carcinoma positive for Epstein-Barr virus staining. Mediastinal lymph node origination?
Yoshitaka Masaki1, Makoto Gomibuchi, Shigeo Tanaka
1Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Secomedic Hospital, 1-696 Toyotomi, Funabashi, Chiba 274-0053, Japan.
The Japanese Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery : Official Publication of the Japanese Association for Thoracic Surgery = Nihon Kyobu Geka Gakkai Zasshi
|April 24, 2002
Abstract:
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.