Follicular Lymphoma Presenting with Leptomeningeal Disease

Follicular lymphoma is generally an indolent B cell lymphoproliferative disorder of transformed follicular center B cells. Central nervous system metastasis is a very rare complication portending a very poor prognosis. We report a rare case of follicular lymphoma presenting with leptomeningeal invol...

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Autores principales: Costa, Rubens, Costa, Ricardo, Costa, Renata
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2014
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4269308/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25544910
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/767621
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Costa, Renata
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description Follicular lymphoma is generally an indolent B cell lymphoproliferative disorder of transformed follicular center B cells. Central nervous system metastasis is a very rare complication portending a very poor prognosis. We report a rare case of follicular lymphoma presenting with leptomeningeal involvement achieving a complete remission after initial therapy.
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spelling pubmed-42693082014-12-28 Follicular Lymphoma Presenting with Leptomeningeal Disease Costa, Rubens Costa, Ricardo Costa, Renata Case Rep Hematol Case Report Follicular lymphoma is generally an indolent B cell lymphoproliferative disorder of transformed follicular center B cells. Central nervous system metastasis is a very rare complication portending a very poor prognosis. We report a rare case of follicular lymphoma presenting with leptomeningeal involvement achieving a complete remission after initial therapy. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2014 2014-12-02 /pmc/articles/PMC4269308/ /pubmed/25544910 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/767621 Text en Copyright © 2014 Rubens Costa et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Follicular Lymphoma Presenting with Leptomeningeal Disease
title Follicular Lymphoma Presenting with Leptomeningeal Disease
title_full Follicular Lymphoma Presenting with Leptomeningeal Disease
title_fullStr Follicular Lymphoma Presenting with Leptomeningeal Disease
title_full_unstemmed Follicular Lymphoma Presenting with Leptomeningeal Disease
title_short Follicular Lymphoma Presenting with Leptomeningeal Disease
title_sort follicular lymphoma presenting with leptomeningeal disease
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4269308/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25544910
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/767621
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