Chlamydiae and Mycoplasma infections in pulmonary MALT lymphoma

Clinical characteristics and prognostic factors of pulmonary MALT lymphoma.

Mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue-derived (MALT) lymphoma, a low grade B-cell extranodal lymphoma, is the most frequent subset of primary pulmonary lymphoma. Our objective was to evaluate the initial extent of disease and to analyse the characteristics and long-term outcome of these patients. All chest and pathological departments of teaching hospitals in Paris were contacted in order to identi...

Primary pulmonary MALT lymphoma - case report and literature overview.

OBJECTIVE Primary pulmonary lymphomas (PPL) are rarely taken into consideration in the differential diagnosis of lung lesions. The aim of this report is to characterize the symptoms, diagnosis and treatment of primary MALT lymphoma of the lung. CASE REPORT We present the case of a 48-year-old man who was admitted to hospital with a history of coughing, fever, fatigue and non-specific lesions ...

EUS in MALT lymphoma.

Primary Pulmonary MALT Lymphoma with Ground-glass Nodule

Pulmonary MALT lymphoma demonstrating a crazy-paving appearance on imaging.

A 65-year-old woman was referred to our hospital due to a pulmonary nodule on chest CT. She had been diagnosed with anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibody-related vasculitis 10 years previously, which had been stabilized using 10 mg/ day prednisolone therapy. Chest CT revealed a crazy-paving appearance (Picture A). The lung resection specimen revealed a pulmonary low grade mucosa-associated lymph...