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To the Editor: Lee et al. (Jan. 5 issue)¹ described three young liver-transplant recipients in whom smooth-muscle tumors containing the Epstein–Barr virus (EBV) genome developed. In the same issue of the Journal McClain et al. reported an association of EBV with leiomyosarcomas and leiomyomas in five children and one young man with AIDS.² A causal relation between EBV infection and the subsequent proliferation of smooth-muscle cells was thought to be likely.³

In the Netherlands, 7000 kidney transplantations have been performed since 1967. Our National Registry for Malignancies after Kidney Transplantation documented the occurrence of leiomyosarcoma in only one patient. This . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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