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    Advanced donor-origin melanoma in a renal transplant recipient

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    Background. A kidney transplant recipient inadvertently contracted donor-origin melanoma, which was found to be very advanced at presentation. Withdrawal of immunosuppression failed to induce rejection, and interferon-alpha was required. When florid allograft rejection was in progress, the allograft was removed, before it was recognized that the transplanted melanoma was not being simultaneously rejected
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