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Human T-cell lymphotropic virus type I (HTLV-1) associated myelopathy and Sjögren's syndrome representing pulmonary nodular amyloidosis and multiple bullae: report of an autopsy case

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Acknowledgements

We thank Dr. M. Kawabata, Department of Pathology, Saitama Prefectural Cardiovascular and Respiratory Center, for valuable discussion in this case and Mr. T. Miyamoto and Mrs. Y. Nomura for their skillful technical assistance.

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  1. Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Miyazaki, 5200 Kihara, Kiyotake, Miyazaki, 889-1692, Japan

    Tomoko Seguchi, Miyuki Nagai, Yutaka Akiyama, Hiroshi Itoh & Hiroaki Kataoka

  2. Division of Internal Medicine, National Sanatorium Miyazaki-higashi Hospital, 4374-1 Tayoshi, Miyazaki, 880-0911, Japan

    Yuka Kyoraku, Kazuko Saita & Toshihiko Ihi

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Seguchi, T., Kyoraku, Y., Saita, K. et al. Human T-cell lymphotropic virus type I (HTLV-1) associated myelopathy and Sjögren's syndrome representing pulmonary nodular amyloidosis and multiple bullae: report of an autopsy case. Virchows Arch 448, 874–876 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00428-005-0028-x

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