Human Pathology
Volume 41, Issue 9 , Pages 1231-1237 , September 2010

Enteropathy-associated T-cell lymphoma—a clinicopathologic and array comparative genomic hybridization study

  • Young Hyeh Ko, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pathology, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul 135-710, Korea
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding authors. Young Hyeh Ko is to be contacted at Department of Pathology, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University, Kangnamgu, Seoul, 135-710, Korea. Masao Seto, Division of Molecular Medicine, Aichi Cancer Center Research Institute, Nagoya 464-8681, Japan.
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  • Sivasundaram Karnan

      Affiliations

    • Division of Molecular Medicine, Aichi Cancer Center Research Institute, Nagoya 464-8681, Japan
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  • Kyeong Mee Kim, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pathology, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul 135-710, Korea
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  • Cheol Keun Park, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pathology, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul 135-710, Korea
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  • Eun Suk Kang, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Laboratory Medicine, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul 135-710, Korea
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  • Young Ho Kim, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Gastroenterology, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul 135-710, Korea
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  • Won Ki Kang, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Gastroenterology, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul 135-710, Korea
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  • Seok Jin Kim, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Hemato-oncology of Internal Medicine, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul 135-710, Korea
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  • Won Seog Kim, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Hemato-oncology of Internal Medicine, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul 135-710, Korea
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  • Woo Yong Lee, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • General surgery, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul 135-710, Korea
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  • Ho Kyung Chun

      Affiliations

    • General surgery, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul 135-710, Korea
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  • Masao Seto, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Molecular Medicine, Aichi Cancer Center Research Institute, Nagoya 464-8681, Japan
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding authors. Young Hyeh Ko is to be contacted at Department of Pathology, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University, Kangnamgu, Seoul, 135-710, Korea. Masao Seto, Division of Molecular Medicine, Aichi Cancer Center Research Institute, Nagoya 464-8681, Japan.

Received 13 July 2009 ,Revised 9 November 2009 ,Accepted 20 November 2009.

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 The authors have no conflict of interest to disclosure.

☆☆ This work was supported by a grant from Samsung Biomedical Research Institute, Seoul, Korea (SBRI C-A8-202).

PII: S0046-8177(10)00050-X

doi: 10.1016/j.humpath.2009.11.020

Human Pathology
Volume 41, Issue 9 , Pages 1231-1237 , September 2010