Objective: The aim of this study was to determine the pattern of hematological malignancies at Al-Gamhouria Teaching Hospital from 2008 to 2010. Material and Methods: Hematological malignancies diagnosed at Al-Gamhouria Teaching Hospital, Department of Hematology-Oncology from January 2008 to December 2010 based on available hematological laboratory methods and histological examination were ret...

Although some causes for malignant lymphoma are known their etiology is not well understood so far. We analyze the relationship between sun exposure and malignant lymphoma in a multicenter, population-based case-control study. Patients with malignant lymphoma (n = 710, 18-80 years) were prospectively recruited in 6 study regions in Germany. For each case, a gender, region and age-matched contro...

Primary retroperitoneal malignant lymphoma is rare, and primary retroperitoneal indolent B-cell lymphoma has not been reported. A 64-year-old woman presented anuria. Imaging techniques showed large retroperitoneal mass, and biopsies from it revealed non-Hodgkin indolent B-cell lymphoma (small lymphocytic lymphoma/chronic lymphocytic lymphoma). The tumor appeared retroperitoneal primary and extr...

conclusions: the potent effect of corticosteroids in the rapid improvement of respiratory compromise associated with thyroid lymphoma represents an important clinical finding. this opens the possibility for the favorable response to corticosteroid therapy to be regarded as a possible preliminary diagnostic tool for thyroid lymphoma in acute respiratory distress patients in the absence of trache...

Autoimmune diseases (ADs) have close relationship with the onset of malignant lymphoma. They closely tie to lymphoma. Immune disorders might play an important role in transformation from ADs to lymphoma. DLBCL occurred after autoimmune hematological diseases and autoimmune lymphoproliferative syndrome (ALPS) was rare. The interval between ADs and DLBCL was long and the pathogenesis might be rel...

Synchronous malignant mucosa associated lymphoid tissue MALT-lymphoma of the small bowel and adenocarcinoma of the colon in the same patient is a scarce rarity. Only few cases have been reported so far. Thus, it might be of interest to report such a case of coexisting malignant MALT-lymphoma of the duodenum and adenocarcinoma of the large bowel.

Patients with a positive reaction to the Paul-Bunnell test in the period 1961-72 were identified at nine different laboratories in Norway and matched against cases of malignant lymphoma registered at the Cancer Registry of Norway in the period 1961-75. Among 5,840 patients having a positive Paul-Bunnell test a total of six developed malignant lymphoma, three of these more than 1 year after the ...

Among 121 cases of primary gastric malignant lymphoma from 1962 to 1994 at the National Cancer Center Hospital, Tokyo, we found four cases (three males and one female) of adenocarcinoma coexisting in the stomach. The incidence of gastric malignant lymphoma together with gastric adenocarcinoma was 3.3%, suggesting that patients with lymphoma may have an increased incidence of gastric adenocarcin...

Cytokines may promote tumor growth by paracrine and/or autocrine pathways. Little information is available because malignant cells differ from their normal counterparts for the cytokine repertoire they express. Here we have investigated by reverse transcription-PCR the expression of 22 cytokine genes in neoplastic B lymphocytes from six patients with mantle cell lymphoma, 10 with follicular lym...