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An unusual case of Waldenstrom’s macroglobulinemia presented with nasopharyngeal involvement
We report a rare case of a 68-year-old male who presented with fever, weight loss, nasal blockage, and epistaxis. Examination revealed cervical and axillary lymphadenopathy with no evidence of organomegaly. On evaluation, bone marrow aspiration showed lymphoplasmacytic infiltration. The computed tom...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3797644/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24171046 http://dx.doi.org/10.3332/ecancer.2013.362 |
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author | Sathyanarayanan, Vishwanath Das, Umesh Shankaranand, BS Gupta, Sumit Anvekar, Naveen J Lakshmaiah, KC |
author_facet | Sathyanarayanan, Vishwanath Das, Umesh Shankaranand, BS Gupta, Sumit Anvekar, Naveen J Lakshmaiah, KC |
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description | We report a rare case of a 68-year-old male who presented with fever, weight loss, nasal blockage, and epistaxis. Examination revealed cervical and axillary lymphadenopathy with no evidence of organomegaly. On evaluation, bone marrow aspiration showed lymphoplasmacytic infiltration. The computed tomography of the neck showed nasopharyngeal mass and the biopsy of this mass and cervical lymph node showed lymphoplasmacytic lymphoma (LPL) with high serum IgM level. Hence, a diagnosis of Waldenstrom’s macroglobulinemia (WM) was made. The patient received six cycles of chemotherapy with a combination of cyclophosphamide, vincristine, and prednisolone (COP regimen). Currently, the patient is under follow-up and in complete remission (CR), one year after completion of therapy. Nasopharyngeal involvement is extremely rare in WM, and hence we report this case. |
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spelling | pubmed-37976442013-10-29 An unusual case of Waldenstrom’s macroglobulinemia presented with nasopharyngeal involvement Sathyanarayanan, Vishwanath Das, Umesh Shankaranand, BS Gupta, Sumit Anvekar, Naveen J Lakshmaiah, KC Ecancermedicalscience Case Report We report a rare case of a 68-year-old male who presented with fever, weight loss, nasal blockage, and epistaxis. Examination revealed cervical and axillary lymphadenopathy with no evidence of organomegaly. On evaluation, bone marrow aspiration showed lymphoplasmacytic infiltration. The computed tomography of the neck showed nasopharyngeal mass and the biopsy of this mass and cervical lymph node showed lymphoplasmacytic lymphoma (LPL) with high serum IgM level. Hence, a diagnosis of Waldenstrom’s macroglobulinemia (WM) was made. The patient received six cycles of chemotherapy with a combination of cyclophosphamide, vincristine, and prednisolone (COP regimen). Currently, the patient is under follow-up and in complete remission (CR), one year after completion of therapy. Nasopharyngeal involvement is extremely rare in WM, and hence we report this case. Cancer Intelligence 2013-10-16 /pmc/articles/PMC3797644/ /pubmed/24171046 http://dx.doi.org/10.3332/ecancer.2013.362 Text en © the authors; licensee ecancermedicalscience. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Case Report Sathyanarayanan, Vishwanath Das, Umesh Shankaranand, BS Gupta, Sumit Anvekar, Naveen J Lakshmaiah, KC An unusual case of Waldenstrom’s macroglobulinemia presented with nasopharyngeal involvement |
title | An unusual case of Waldenstrom’s macroglobulinemia presented with nasopharyngeal involvement |
title_full | An unusual case of Waldenstrom’s macroglobulinemia presented with nasopharyngeal involvement |
title_fullStr | An unusual case of Waldenstrom’s macroglobulinemia presented with nasopharyngeal involvement |
title_full_unstemmed | An unusual case of Waldenstrom’s macroglobulinemia presented with nasopharyngeal involvement |
title_short | An unusual case of Waldenstrom’s macroglobulinemia presented with nasopharyngeal involvement |
title_sort | unusual case of waldenstrom’s macroglobulinemia presented with nasopharyngeal involvement |
topic | Case Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3797644/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24171046 http://dx.doi.org/10.3332/ecancer.2013.362 |
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