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Case Reports in Gastrointestinal Medicine
Volume 2012, Article ID 395801, 6 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/395801
Case Report

Colonic EBV-Associated Lymphoproliferative Disorder in a Patient Treated with Rabbit Antithymocyte Globulin for Aplastic Anemia

Hiroko Sugimoto-Sekiguchi,1 Haruko Tashiro,1 Ryosuke Shirasaki,1 Tomio Arai,2,3 Tadashi Yamamoto,1 Yoko Oka,1 Nobu Akiyama,1 Kazuo Kawasugi,1 and Naoki Shirafuji1

1Department of Hematology/Oncology, Teikyo University School of Medicine, 2-11-1 Kaga, Itabashi-ku, Tokyo 173-8606, Japan
2Division of Pathology, Teikyo University School of Medicine, 2-11-1 Kaga, Itabashi-ku, Tokyo 173-8606, Japan
3Department of Pathology, Tokyo Metropolitan Geriatric Hospital and Institute of Gerontology, 35-2 Sakae-cho, Itabashi-ku, Tokyo 173-0015, Japan

Received 8 July 2012; Accepted 28 August 2012

Academic Editors: E. Altintas and S. Chokhavatia

Copyright © 2012 Hiroko Sugimoto-Sekiguchi et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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