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The aims of this study were to determine whether the expression of Topo II- α correlates with presence of EBV in giant cell lesion of the jawbones and whether it is predictive of clinical biologic behavior of these lesions.

This higher incidence of brain metastases in patients with visceral disease is common evidence in retrospective studies [ 9, 20] and should probably be attributed to the more aggressive biologic behavior of these tumors and the higher probability of hematogeneous dissemination of malignant cells in these patients.

The aims of this study were to determine whether EBV and DNA-Topo II- α are present in giant cell lesion (CGCL) of the jaws, whether the expression of Topo II- α correlates with clinicopathologic parameters and presence of EBV, and whether they are predictive of clinical biologic behavior of these lesions.

As mentioned above, some investigators asserted that these strict criteria did not reflect the biologic behavior of the disease, rather only representing a localized manifestation of a different primary extranodal lymphoma [ 3- 5].

The present study was designed to demonstrate the feasibility of use of the external iliac artery as a substitute for the renal artery in surgical revascularization of renal artery fibrodysplasia and to assess the long-term biologic behavior of the external iliac artery so used.

Little is known about the overall biologic behavior of this tumor, but the prognosis seems to be poor.

Furthermore, the biologic behavior of the γ3 +/+ mice resembled closely that of mice of the parental MRL/ lpr strain in several characteristic features.

Prednisone, famotidine or chemotherapy was used in conjunction with RT in a few cases because of the biologic behavior of the specific tumour.

It has been suggested that the molecular-genetic alterations may be responsible for the distinct morphology and biologic behavior of the different subtypes of human ECs [ 4].

As recently stated by Kemnaand Tervaert [ 5], 'the classification of disease should focus not so much on the initial presentation, but on the biologic behavior of the disease', including newly acquired knowledge of the prognosis, pathogenesis and genetics of vasculitides.

The same phenomenon was previously observed in a study by Yonemori et al. 24 A possible explanation is that lymph node micrometastases represent a more aggressive biologic behavior of the tumor, similar to lymph node metastases found on routine histology.