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Monomorphic Epstein-Barr virus (EBV)-associated large B-cell posttransplant lymphoproliferative disorder presenting as a tongue ulcer in a pancreatic transplant patient.

Bruce AJ, Subtil A, Rogers RS, Castro LA

Dermatology consultant, Department of Dermatology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 55905, USA. bruce.alison@mayo.edu

Posttransplant lymphoproliferative disorders are a group of lymphoid proliferations and lymphomas that develop as a consequence of immunosuppression in recipients of solid organ or bone marrow allografts. We describe an unusual oral presentation of posttransplant Epstein-Barr virus-associated diffuse large B-cell lymphoma in a 45-year-old woman after pancreatic transplant.

Published 25 September 2006 in Oral Surg Oral Med Oral Pathol Oral Radiol Endod, 102(4): e24-8.
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