PMID- 16630222 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20060829 LR - 20071115 IS - 0141-9854 (Print) IS - 0141-9854 (Linking) VI - 28 IP - 2 DP - 2006 Apr TI - Adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma in a 21-year-old man. PG - 141-4 AB - Adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma (ATL) is malignancy of mature T cells that caused by infection with human T-cell leukemia virus type I (HTLV-I). Leukemogenesis of ATL cells considered to involve a multistep oncogenic process, resulting in a very long latency period. But, we report here the case of a 21-year-old man having suffered from recurrent stomatititis who has already developed acute-type ATL. ATL generally occurs after a long latency period, and the present case in a young man is thus very rare. FAU - Owatari, Satsuki AU - Owatari S AD - Department of Hematology and Immunology, Kagoshima University, Sakuragaoka, Kagoshima, Japan. owatari@q-jun2.hosp.go.jp FAU - Uozumi, Kimiharu AU - Uozumi K FAU - Tokunaga, Masahito AU - Tokunaga M FAU - Tokunaga, Mayumi AU - Tokunaga M FAU - Haraguchi, Kouichi AU - Haraguchi K FAU - Suzuki, Shinsuke AU - Suzuki S FAU - Arima, Naomichi AU - Arima N LA - eng PT - Case Reports PT - Journal Article PL - England TA - Clin Lab Haematol JT - Clinical and laboratory haematology JID - 7907061 RN - 0 (HTLV-I Antibodies) SB - IM MH - Adult MH - Blotting, Southern MH - HTLV-I Antibodies/blood MH - Humans MH - Leukemia-Lymphoma, Adult T-Cell/*diagnosis MH - Male EDAT- 2006/04/25 09:00 MHDA- 2006/08/30 09:00 CRDT- 2006/04/25 09:00 PHST- 2006/04/25 09:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2006/08/30 09:00 [medline] PHST- 2006/04/25 09:00 [entrez] AID - CLH764 [pii] AID - 10.1111/j.1365-2257.2006.00764.x [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Clin Lab Haematol. 2006 Apr;28(2):141-4. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2257.2006.00764.x.