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01-11-2012 | Case Report
Endoscopic Mucosal Resection of an Epstein–Barr Virus-Associated Lymphoepithelioma-Like Gastric Carcinoma
Authors:
Shou-jiang Tang, Naveed Ahmed, Feriyl Bhaijee, John Sheehan, Charu Subramony, Courtney Jackson, Jack R. Lewin
Published in:
Digestive Diseases and Sciences
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Issue 11/2012
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Excerpt
Epstein–Barr virus (EBV) usually causes a life-long persistent infection of the B lymphocytes in 90 % of adults [
1,
2]. EBV is oncogenic in the development of Burkitt lymphoma, immunosuppression-related lymphoma, Hodgkin’s lymphoma, and nasopharyngeal carcinoma. Recently, EBV-associated gastric carcinomas were found to have a prevalence of 8.7 % and they tend to be located in the gastric cardia and body [
2]. Primary gastric lymphoepithelioma-like carcinoma (LLC) is rare and associated with latent EBV infection [
2‐
4]. We report a case of EBV-associated primary gastric LLC diagnosed and completely removed by endoscopic mucosal resection (EMR). …
