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While referring to the sharp rise in the incidence of primary CNS lymphomas (PCNSLs) as an epi-demic may be somewhat overstated, this tumor has made the transition from textbook and case report material to surgical pathology benches across America. While this is in part a result of the AIDS epidemic, an overall 10 fold increase in the incidence of PCNSL was seen between 1973 and 1991 (1).
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Prayson, R.A., Cohen, M.L. (2000). Primary Central Nervous System Lymphoma. In: Practical Differential Diagnosis in Surgical Neuropathology. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59259-037-7_25
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