Narayan D, DaSilva D, Doshi M
Department of Internal Medicine, Kingstown General Hospital, Kingstown, St Vincent, West Indies.
West Indian Med J. 2003 Dec;52(4):322-4.
HTLV-1 infection is endemic in the Caribbean and several publications have reported the clinical disease entities seen in this population of patients. This case report is an account of a patient admitted to Kingstown General Hospital, St Vincent and the Grenadines, who had severe infective dermatitis, tropical spastic paraparesis (TSP) and Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma (NHL). As far as we are aware, all three diseases have not been described in a single patient.
人类嗜T淋巴细胞病毒1型（HTLV-1）感染在加勒比地区呈地方性流行，已有多篇出版物报道了该患者群体中出现的临床疾病实体。本病例报告讲述的是一名入住圣文森特和格林纳丁斯金斯敦总医院的患者，该患者患有严重感染性皮炎、热带痉挛性截瘫（TSP）和非霍奇金淋巴瘤（NHL）。据我们所知，尚未有关于单一患者同时患有这三种疾病的描述。
