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An Atypical Presentation of Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma

Lymphomas result from the proliferation of malignant lymphocytes, which can affect lymph nodes, blood, and other organs. Primary involvement of the spine by haematological diseases is rare. Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma with an extranodal location most frequently involves the gastrointestinal tract an...

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Autores principales: Dias Antunes, Joana, Almeida, Patrícia, Barreiro, Ivo, Gonçalves, Abílio
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9550215/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36249658
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.29052
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author Dias Antunes, Joana
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description Lymphomas result from the proliferation of malignant lymphocytes, which can affect lymph nodes, blood, and other organs. Primary involvement of the spine by haematological diseases is rare. Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma with an extranodal location most frequently involves the gastrointestinal tract and airways, affecting the bone, muscle, and nervous system. We present a clinical case of an atypical form of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. A 78-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital with complaints of pain in the lumbar region, hip, and left leg for the last month. Computed tomography of the lumbar spine revealed a mass of left paravertebral tissue with involvement from L3 to L5. Thoraco-abdominal CT-guided biopsy revealed diffuse large-cell non-Hodgkin B lymphoma. The remainder of the study did not show lymphatic involvement, so a diagnosis of primary extranodal large cell non-Hodgkin B lymphoma was made.
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spelling pubmed-95502152022-10-14 An Atypical Presentation of Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma Dias Antunes, Joana Almeida, Patrícia Barreiro, Ivo Gonçalves, Abílio Cureus Internal Medicine Lymphomas result from the proliferation of malignant lymphocytes, which can affect lymph nodes, blood, and other organs. Primary involvement of the spine by haematological diseases is rare. Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma with an extranodal location most frequently involves the gastrointestinal tract and airways, affecting the bone, muscle, and nervous system. We present a clinical case of an atypical form of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. A 78-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital with complaints of pain in the lumbar region, hip, and left leg for the last month. Computed tomography of the lumbar spine revealed a mass of left paravertebral tissue with involvement from L3 to L5. Thoraco-abdominal CT-guided biopsy revealed diffuse large-cell non-Hodgkin B lymphoma. The remainder of the study did not show lymphatic involvement, so a diagnosis of primary extranodal large cell non-Hodgkin B lymphoma was made. Cureus 2022-09-11 /pmc/articles/PMC9550215/ /pubmed/36249658 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.29052 Text en Copyright © 2022, Dias Antunes et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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