Uncommon Presentation of Isolated Jejunal Lymphoma Masquerading as Crohn's Disease

Primary gastrointestinal lymphoma is a rare entity, commonly involving stomach, small bowel, and colorectum. The usual location for small bowel B cell lymphoma is distal ileum due to abundant lymphoid tissue. We are reporting the case of a 53-year-old lady presumptively diagnosed as Crohn's dis...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Sattavan, Swati, Aggarwal, Lalit, Dikshit, Priyadarshi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2016
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4893590/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27313941
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/5603627
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Sumario:Primary gastrointestinal lymphoma is a rare entity, commonly involving stomach, small bowel, and colorectum. The usual location for small bowel B cell lymphoma is distal ileum due to abundant lymphoid tissue. We are reporting the case of a 53-year-old lady presumptively diagnosed as Crohn's disease on clinical and radiological grounds but histopathologically proven to be an unusual variant of isolated primary non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.

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