TY - JOUR T1 - Hepatitis C virus and lymphoma: which is useful—serum or tissue? JF - Journal of Clinical Pathology JO - J Clin Pathol SP - 1040 LP - 1040 DO - 10.1136/jcp.2010.082461 VL - 63 IS - 11 AU - Semra Paydas Y1 - 2010/11/01 UR - http://jcp.bmj.com/content/63/11/1040.1.abstract N2 - Dear SirI read with great interest the paper published by Chuang et al about hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection in cases with lymphoma in Taiwan.1 They studied HCV antibody in 346 cases with lymphoma and found anti-HCV antibody in 11% of cases: among these, 34 of 266 cases with B-NHL had this antibody (12.8%). This was higher than the control population, and the age-adjusted OR was found to be 4.57. Eleven and 7 years ago, we published 2 papers on anti-HCV … ER -