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[HTLV-I clinical pathological spectrum]
L Cartier1, F Araya, J L Castillo
1Departamento de Ciencias Neurológicas, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Chile (División Oriente), Santiago.
Revista Medica De Chile
|August 1, 1992
Abstract:
HTLV-I has been revealed as the etiological factor of the Tropical Spastic Paraparesis (TSP) and of the T-cell leukemia-lymphoma of the adult (ATLL). Recently, it has also been associated to some forms of polymyositis, polyarthritis, polyneuropathies, Sjögren's syndrome, thrombocytopenia and lympho-alveolitis. The clinical and pathological spectrum of this retrovirus is analyzed taking into account the Chilean cases and those reported by the international medical literature.