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Case Reports
. 1990 May;3(3):377-80.

Lymphoepithelial carcinoma of the stomach with Epstein-Barr virus demonstrated by polymerase chain reaction

A P Burke  1 , T S Yen, K M Shekitka, L H Sobin
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  • PMID: 2163534
Case Reports

Lymphoepithelial carcinoma of the stomach with Epstein-Barr virus demonstrated by polymerase chain reaction

A P Burke et al. Mod Pathol. 1990 May.

Abstract

Epstein-Barr virus DNA was detected by polymerase chain reaction in a paraffin-embedded block of an undifferentiated lymphoepithelial gastric carcinoma but was absent in a poorly differentiated gastric adenocarcinoma which also had pronounced lymphoid stroma. This is the first report, to our knowledge, of a lymphoepithelial carcinoma of the stomach. The association with Epstein-Barr virus and the distinctive histologic appearance justify the separate classification of undifferentiated lymphoepithelial carcinomas of the stomach similar to those of the nasopharynx from adenocarcinomas with lymphoid stroma.

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