Head and neck lymphomas: A 20-year review in an Oral Pathology Unit, Johannesburg, South Africa, a country with the highest global incidence of HIV/AIDS

Highlights • Western countries report a decline in lymphoma frequency. • South African cohort shows increase in head and neck lymphomas from 1993 to 2012. • Plasmablastic lymphoma is the most common histologic type. • Non-Hodgkin lymphomas occur with increasing frequency in HIV/AIDS.

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Published in:	Oral oncology Vol. 67; pp. 17 - 23
Main Authors:	Alli, Nasreen, Meer, Shabnum
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	England Elsevier Ltd 01-04-2017
Subjects:	Adolescent Adult Aged Aged, 80 and over AIDS Child Child, Preschool Female Head and neck lymphomas Head and Neck Neoplasms - complications Head and Neck Neoplasms - epidemiology Hematology, Oncology and Palliative Medicine HIV HIV Infections - complications HIV Infections - epidemiology Humans Incidence Infant Lymphoma, Non-Hodgkin - complications Lymphoma, Non-Hodgkin - epidemiology Male Middle Aged Otolaryngology Plasmablastic lymphoma South Africa - epidemiology Young Adult Head and neck lymphomas AIDS Plasmablastic lymphoma HIV
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Summary:	Highlights • Western countries report a decline in lymphoma frequency. • South African cohort shows increase in head and neck lymphomas from 1993 to 2012. • Plasmablastic lymphoma is the most common histologic type. • Non-Hodgkin lymphomas occur with increasing frequency in HIV/AIDS.
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ISSN:	1368-8375 1879-0593
DOI:	10.1016/j.oraloncology.2017.01.011