The case is presented of a patient, treated for Hodgkin’s disease, who contracted infectious mononucleosis more than 3 years later. While Epstein-Barr virus has been considered a possible etiologic factor in Hodgkin’s disease, the sequence of events reported in this case has to be interpreted as evidence against a causal relationship between the virus and Hodgkin’s disease in this patient.
The case of a patient with infectious mononucleosis and acute myelocytic leukemia is presented. The course of the leukemia seems not to have been influenced beneficially by the infection. The total survival time was 11 months. The data of this patient are discussed in relation to those of other patients with concurrent infectious mononucleosis and acute leukemia, reported in the literature.
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