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SUBMITTER: Deng L
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4694815 | biostudies-other | 2015 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Deng Lijuan L Song Yuqin Y Young Ken H KH Hu Shimin S Ding Ning N Song Weiwei W Li Xianghong X Shi Yunfei Y Huang Huiying H Liu Weiping W Zheng Wen W Wang Xiaopei X Xie Yan Y Lin Ningjing N Tu Meifeng M Ping Lingyan L Ying Zhitao Z Zhang Chen C Sun Yingli Y Zhu Jun J
Oncotarget 20150901 28
While the epidemiologic association between hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection and diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) is established, little is known more than this epidemiologic evidence. We studied a cohort of 587 patients with DLBCL for HBV infection status, clinicopathologic features, and the immunoglobulin variable region in HBV surface antigen (HBsAg)-positive patients. Eighty-one (81/587, 13.8%) patients were HBsAg-positive. Compared with HBsAg-negative DLBCL, HBsAg-positive DLBCL displ ...[more]