Angiotropic lymphoma with endocrine involvement.
Shanks, Jonathan H Harris, Maggie A Howat, A J Freemont, Anthony J
Shanks, Jonathan H
Harris, Maggie A
Howat, A J
Freemont, Anthony J
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Abstract
AIMS: Two cases of angiotropic high-grade B-cell lymphoma are described in which involvement of endocrine glands was a prominent feature. METHODS AND RESULTS: One patient had marked unilateral adrenomegally due to lymphoma within adrenal blood vessels. He is alive 5 years after presentation following combination chemotherapy. The diagnosis was made at autopsy in the second patient who presented with pyrexia of unknown origin and had hypothyroidism and a thyroid nodule. The thyroid gland and pituitary showed striking involvement by angiotropic lymphoma and the thyroid nodule was a cavernous haemangioma heavily colonized by lymphoma cells. CONCLUSIONS: Our cases illustrate endocrine organ manifestations of this rare disease. The condition may respond to combination chemotherapy.
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Date
1997-08
Publisher
Collections
Keywords
Adrenal Gland Cancer
Thyroid Cancer
Thyroid Cancer
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Article
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Angiotropic lymphoma with endocrine involvement. 1997, 31 (2):161-6 Histopathology