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The acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS), defined by the Center for Disease Control as the presence of either Kaposi’s sarcoma or opportunistic infection in a high-risk individual such as a homosexual male, Haitian, drug abuser, or hemophiliac [1], reached epidemic levels in certain areas of the United States in 1981. Doll and List [2] and Ziegler [3] described the first cases of lymphomas occurring in immunosuppressed homosexual males. By 1983, it became apparent that this population had a greater than expected incidence of central nervous system (NCS) lymphoma and, consequently, the presence of primary CNS lymphoma was incorporated into the definition of AIDS [1]. Since 1980, we have seen 15 homosexual males with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, six of whom had CNS involvement.
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Riggs, S.A. et al. (1985). Unusual presentations of non-Hodgkin’s lymphomas in homosexual males. In: Cavalli, F., Bonadonna, G., Rozencweig, M. (eds) Malignant Lymphomas and Hodgkin’s Disease: Experimental and Therapeutic Advances. Developments in Oncology, vol 32. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2607-6_27
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