Urothelial cell carcinoma after BK polyomavirus infection in kidney transplant recipients: A cohort study of veterans.
Ralph RogersReginald GohhAmanda NoskaPublished in: Transplant infectious disease : an official journal of the Transplantation Society (2017)
In this cohort of KTR veterans, no overall increased or decreased relative risk for malignancy was associated with evidence of prior BKPyV infection. A >8-fold increased risk of developing UCC after BKPyV infection was seen, although this risk was not found to be statistically significant.
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