Table 3 Reported cases of pulmonary inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor evaluated for HHV-8

From: Absence of human herpesvirus-8 in pulmonary inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor: immunohistochemical and molecular analysis of 20 cases

Study

Cases

Age (years)/ sex

ALK-1 IHC

HHV-8 IHC

HHV-8 PCR

Gómez-Román et al9, 10a

1

60/M

—

NA

+

 

2

39/F

—

NA

+

 

3

75/M

—

NA

+

 

4

49/F

—

NA

+

 

5

79/M

b

NA

+

Yamamoto et al22

6

4/M

+

—

—

 

7

22/F

+

—

—

 

8

23/M

—

—

—

  1. ALK, anaplastic lymphoma kinase; HHV, human herpesvirus; IHC, immunohistochemistry; NA, data not available.
  2. aData compiled from two studies.
  3. bOne of the cases lacked material for immunohistochemistry.
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