...Donn M. Stewart; Roshan Ramanathan; Siddhartha Mahanty; Daniel P. Fedorko; John E. Janik; John C. Morris A 55-year-old woman with human T-cell lymphotropic virus type-1 (HTLV-1)-associated adult T-cell leukemia (ATL) and a history of previously treated Strongyloides stercoralis infection received...

... lymphoid cells. She was positive for human T-cell leukemia virus type-I antibody and the diagnosis of lymphoma-type adult T-cell leukemia (ATL) was made. Gastritis was proved to be caused by cytomegalovirus (CMV), since histologic examination of the gastric biopsy specimen disclosed typical cytomegalic...

...Etsuko Kumagai; Takashi Kumagai; Shozo Tanoue; Norio Asou; Kazunari Yamaguchi; Hiroaki Okabe; Mitsuaki Yoshida; Kiyoshi Takatsuki Serum levels of immunosuppressive acidic protein (I AP) were measured in patients with adult T-cell leukemia (ATL) in order to clarify its significance in this disease...

...Takashi Okamura; Tsunefumi Shibuya; Mine Harada; Yoshiyuki Mho A 38-year-old Japanese man had suffered from trichophyton infection for several years. The white blood cell count was 20,300/mm 3 , including 54% abnormal lymphocytes with irregularly convoluted nuclei. Adult T-cell leukemia (ATL...

...Hiroyuki Tsuda; Toshinori Ishii; Tomohiro Sawada; Kiyoshi Takatsuki Thirty-seven patients with adult T-cell leukemia had serum β 2 -microglobulin (β2M) estimated at presentation. A significant association was found between β2M and the subtypes of the disease: β2M in the acute type is significantly...

...Noriko Funai; Yoshinori Shimamoto; Osamu Tokunaga; Wataru Sugihara; Masaya Yamaguchi We investigated 90 autopsied cases with hematologic malignancy, including malignant lymphoma (ML), acute leukemia (AL), and adult T-cell leukemia (ATL) peculiar to our district, during the 10-year period 1982-1991...

...Muneou Suzuki; Hisamitsu Uno; Akihiko Kiyomizu; Youko Kubuki; Kiyoshi Yamashita; Kouichi Maeda; Hitoshi Matsuoka; Kazunori Tsuda; Hirohito Tsubouchi A patient with acute adult T-cell leukemia (ATL) in whom spontaneous remission was observed without any specific treatment having been given...

...Akemi Yano; Masaki Yasukawa; Kohsuke Yanagisawa; Hitoshi Hasegawa; Takaaki Hato; Yohko Minamoto; Hidehisa Kohno; Toshifumi Kondo; Shigeru Fujita; Yuzuru Kobayashi The mechanism of eosinophilia in a patient with adult T cell leukemia (ATL) was investigated. A 61-year-old woman with ATL presented...

...Hiroshi Fujiwara; Naomichi Arima; Tadashi Matsumoto; Hideo Ohtsubo; Kakushi Matsushita; Toshimasa Kukita; Chuwa Tei Adult T-cell leukemia (ATL) is usually defined as a malignant disease of T cells infected by human T-lymphotropic virus type I (HTLV-I). In the present study, we describe a 49-year...