Bilateral tonsillar infiltration of T‐cell prolymphocytic leukemia

Tonsillar lymphoma usually presents as unilateral or bilateral infiltration of diffuse large B‐cell lymphomas. We report a case of a 79‐year‐old man with near‐complete obstruction of the upper airways due to T‐cell prolymphocytic leukemia cells. Surgical resection was safely performed to reduce burd...

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Autores principales: Bertaggia, Ilaria, De Stefano, Sabrina, Di Lella, Filippo, Roti, Giovanni
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2019
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Clinical Image
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6878055/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31788291
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.2418
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author Bertaggia, Ilaria
De Stefano, Sabrina
Di Lella, Filippo
Roti, Giovanni
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description Tonsillar lymphoma usually presents as unilateral or bilateral infiltration of diffuse large B‐cell lymphomas. We report a case of a 79‐year‐old man with near‐complete obstruction of the upper airways due to T‐cell prolymphocytic leukemia cells. Surgical resection was safely performed to reduce burden of disease.
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spelling pubmed-68780552019-11-29 Bilateral tonsillar infiltration of T‐cell prolymphocytic leukemia Bertaggia, Ilaria De Stefano, Sabrina Di Lella, Filippo Roti, Giovanni Clin Case Rep Clinical Image Tonsillar lymphoma usually presents as unilateral or bilateral infiltration of diffuse large B‐cell lymphomas. We report a case of a 79‐year‐old man with near‐complete obstruction of the upper airways due to T‐cell prolymphocytic leukemia cells. Surgical resection was safely performed to reduce burden of disease. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2019-09-18 /pmc/articles/PMC6878055/ /pubmed/31788291 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.2418 Text en © 2019 The Authors. Clinical Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Bertaggia, Ilaria
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Bilateral tonsillar infiltration of T‐cell prolymphocytic leukemia
title Bilateral tonsillar infiltration of T‐cell prolymphocytic leukemia
title_full Bilateral tonsillar infiltration of T‐cell prolymphocytic leukemia
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title_full_unstemmed Bilateral tonsillar infiltration of T‐cell prolymphocytic leukemia
title_short Bilateral tonsillar infiltration of T‐cell prolymphocytic leukemia
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topic Clinical Image
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6878055/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31788291
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.2418
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