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Non-hodgkin lymphoma and pleural mesothelioma in a person exposed to asbestos

Author(s) -

Claudio Bianchi,

Tommaso Bianchi

Publication year - 2015

Publication title -

turkish journal of pathology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.305

H-Index - 14

eISSN - 1309-5730

pISSN - 1018-5615

DOI - 10.5146/tjpath.2015.01332

Subject(s) - mesothelioma , asbestos , medicine , lymphoma , pleural effusion , etiology , pathology , radiation therapy , pleural disease , oncology , radiology , respiratory disease , lung , materials science , metallurgy

Non-Hodgkin lymphoma and pleural mesothelioma may co-exist in the same patient. A large cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma of the inguinal lymph nodes was diagnosed in a 73-year-old woman. The patient was treated by chemotherapy. She did not receive radiotherapy. The patient had been exposed to asbestos having worked in a cotton mill and in a distillery. Four years after the diagnosis of lymphoma, she presented with a left pleural effusion. Large biopsies of the pleura showed a malignant mesothelioma, biphasic type, and pleural plaques. Epidemiological studies about the asbestos-lymphoma relationship gave conflicting results. The lymphoma-mesothelioma association is not exceptional, and suggests that asbestos plays a role in the etiology of both malignancies.

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