Splenic non-Hodgkin's lymphoma without organomegaly: occult presentation with fatal course and post-mortem diagnosis | Zendy

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Splenic non-Hodgkin's lymphoma without organomegaly: occult presentation with fatal course and post-mortem diagnosis

Author(s) -

Russell Gollard,

Diana Lorena Salcedo García

Publication year - 2010

Publication title -

rare tumors

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.285

H-Index - 15

eISSN - 2036-3613

pISSN - 2036-3605

DOI - 10.4081/rt.2010.e18

Subject(s) - organomegaly , medicine , occult , fulminant , lymphoma , presentation (obstetrics) , pathology , spleen , fulminant hepatic failure , splenic disease , radiology , disease , transplantation , splenectomy , liver transplantation , alternative medicine

Splenic lymphoma without splenomegaly is uncommon. We report the case of a 68-year-old female who presented with fulminant B symptoms and thrombocytopenia, only to be found to have micronodular large B-cell lymph-oma of the spleen post-mortem. Diagnosis of this rare entity remains difficult and overall prognosis is poor

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