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  • article 2 Citação(ões) na Scopus
    Angiosarcoma in HIV-negative patients is not associated with HHV-8
    (2016) AVANCINI, Joao; CHERUBIM, Andre Pires Zanata; OLIVEIRA, Cristina Mendes de; VALENTE, Neusa Yuriko Sakai; FESTA NETO, Cyro; SANCHES, Jose Antonio; PAZZINI, Renato; SUMITA, Laura Masami; PANNUTI, Claudio Sergio
    BACKGROUND: Angiosarcoma is an aggressive, malignant neoplasm of vascular or lymphatic origin. Herpes virus 8 (HHV-8) is a member of the herpes family with a tropism for endothelial cells and it has been proven to induce vascular neoplasms, such as Kaposi's sarcoma. The role of HHV-8 in the pathogenesis of angiosarcoma has not been well defined. OBJECTIVE: To investigate the relationship between the presence of HHV-8 and angiosarcoma. METHODS: In this study, the team investigated the relationship between the presence of HHV-8, as determined by polymerase chain reaction, and angiosarcoma, using samples from patients with epidemic Kaposi's sarcoma as controls. RESULTS: While all control cases with epidemic Kaposi's sarcoma were positive for HHV-8, none of the angiosarcoma cases was. CONCLUSION: These findings support most previous studies that found no association between HHV-8 and angiosarcoma.