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To the Editor: Patients infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) are at risk for malignant non-Hodgkin's lymphoma of B-cell origin.¹ We describe a patient with morphologic features of polymorphic B-cell lymphoproliferation similar to those observed after solid-organ transplantation.²

A 36-year-old homosexual man presented with dysuria, fecaluria, watery diarrhea, fever, and weight loss of 8 kg within the previous two months. HIV infection had been diagnosed in 1995. The patient had an initial CD4 T-cell count of 50 cells per microliter of blood and a viral load of 140,000 HIV copies per milliliter. He had received highly active antiretroviral therapy . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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