Table 4. The short-term outcomes of ATL patients who developed opportunistic infections (spontaneous remission).
| No. | Age/Sex | Subtype | CR/PR | Remission duration | Clonality | Author (year) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 36/M | ND | CR | 4 years | ND | Kimura (1983) |
| 2 | 54/M | chronic | PR | ND | ND | Kawano (1983) |
| 3 | 73/M | acute | CR | several weeks | ND | Schnizer (1983) |
| 4 | 74/M | ND | PR | ND | ND | Tagawa (1984) |
| 5 | 50/F | ND | PR | ND | ND | Tagawa (1984) |
| 6 | 41/M | ND | CR | 5 years | ND | Mattock (1986) |
| 7 | 57/F | chronic | CR | 1 year | ND | Murakawa (1990) |
| 8 | 55/F | acute | CR | 10 months | (+) | Taniguchi (1993) |
| 9 | 50/F | acute | CR | 11 months | (+) | Shimamoto (1993) |
| 10 | 64/M | lymphoma | CR | 3 months | (+) | Shimamoto (1993) |
| 11 | 49/F | acute | CR | 6 years | (+) | Shimamoto (1993) |
| 12 | 42/M | acute | CR | 2 months | (+) | Suzuki (1995) |
| 13 | 62/F | lymphoma | CR | 2 months | (+) | Jinnohara (1997) |
| 14 | 70/M | chronic | CR | ND | (+) | Mizumoto (1997) |
| 15 | 42/M | acute | CR | 2 years | (+) | Kawada (1998) |
| 16 | 76/M | acute | PR | ND | (+) | Matsushita (1999) |
| 17 | 79/M | acute | CR | 1 year | (+) | Takezako (2000) |
| Present case 6 | 56/F | acute | CR | 213 days | biclonality | The present study |
| Present case 7 | 67/M | acute | PR | 133 days | monoclonality | The present study |
| Present case 11 | 54/M | chronic | PR | 194 days | monoclonality | The present study |
Abbreviations: Abbreviations: CR, complete remission; PR, partial remission; ND, not described or not done.