Splenic non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma without organomegaly: occult presentation with fatal course and post-mortem diagnosis

Splenic lymphoma without splenomegaly is uncommon. We report the case of a 68-year-old female who presented with fulminant B symptoms and thrombocytopenia, only to be found to have micronodular large B-cell lymphoma of the spleen post-mortem. Diagnosis of this rare entity remains difficult and overa...

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Autores principales: Gollard, Russell P, Garcia, Diana
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: PagePress 2010
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2994495/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21139946
http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/rt.2010.e18
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description Splenic lymphoma without splenomegaly is uncommon. We report the case of a 68-year-old female who presented with fulminant B symptoms and thrombocytopenia, only to be found to have micronodular large B-cell lymphoma of the spleen post-mortem. Diagnosis of this rare entity remains difficult and overall prognosis is poor.
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spelling pubmed-29944952010-12-07 Splenic non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma without organomegaly: occult presentation with fatal course and post-mortem diagnosis Gollard, Russell P Garcia, Diana Rare Tumors Case Report Splenic lymphoma without splenomegaly is uncommon. We report the case of a 68-year-old female who presented with fulminant B symptoms and thrombocytopenia, only to be found to have micronodular large B-cell lymphoma of the spleen post-mortem. Diagnosis of this rare entity remains difficult and overall prognosis is poor. PagePress 2010-03-31 /pmc/articles/PMC2994495/ /pubmed/21139946 http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/rt.2010.e18 Text en ©Copyright R.P. Gollard and D. Garcia, 2010 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (by-nc 3.0). Licensee PAGEPress, Italy
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Splenic non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma without organomegaly: occult presentation with fatal course and post-mortem diagnosis
title Splenic non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma without organomegaly: occult presentation with fatal course and post-mortem diagnosis
title_full Splenic non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma without organomegaly: occult presentation with fatal course and post-mortem diagnosis
title_fullStr Splenic non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma without organomegaly: occult presentation with fatal course and post-mortem diagnosis
title_full_unstemmed Splenic non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma without organomegaly: occult presentation with fatal course and post-mortem diagnosis
title_short Splenic non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma without organomegaly: occult presentation with fatal course and post-mortem diagnosis
title_sort splenic non-hodgkin’s lymphoma without organomegaly: occult presentation with fatal course and post-mortem diagnosis
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2994495/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21139946
http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/rt.2010.e18
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