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Clinical and laboratory characterization of adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma in patients from Salvador, Bahia

ABSTRACT ATLL is a malignant and aggressive leukemia whose survival time is limited. It is known that 5% of individuals infected with HTLV-1, after many years of latency, may develop this disease. The mechanisms by which the evolution of clinical conditions occurs are unknown, and in Brazil there are few...
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Penile melanoma

ABSTRACT Penile melanoma is a rare event, responsible for less than 1.4% of penile cancers. In general, it is late diagnosed and the treatment is usually aggressive. The authors present a 66-year-old Caucasian man who had an ulcerated penile lesion for 1 year, diagnosed as melanoma after biopsy and treated...