abstract objective the incidence of childhood cancer has been increasing nearly one percent per year for the past two decades. leukemia and lymphoma are the most common types of childhood cancers. this study assessed the relation between environmental factors (hydrocarbon, agricultural toxin, insecticide) and leukemia/lymphoma in children, which was evaluated by the frequency of the parents’ ha...

conclusions the association between viral hepatitis and nhl in the area of interest might provide some degree of explanation to this finding. our data confirm that due to epidemic infection of hcv in the area of naples, a high mortality for nhl persists, moreover the adoption of standard therapeutic protocols administered in full accordance with an evidence-based approach and current guidelines...

the most frequently studied association between a hepatitis virus and non hodgkin lymphoma (nhl) has been with hepatitis c virus (hcv). association with hepatitis b virus (hbv) is less studied. in this regard mixed cryoglobulinemia (mc) is more commonly associated with hcv than hbv. still rarer is cryofibrinogenemia in these patients.   lack of symptoms in addition its rarity delays the diagnos...

abstract background involvement of lacrimal apparatus by non hodgkin lymphoma as a first manifestation is extremely rare and only three cases have been reported in children. the purpose of this report is to determine the clinical characteristic of patient with primary involvement of lacrimal apparatus with lymphoma. case presentation a 7-year-old girl with history of tearing, gradually progress...

back ground: vincristine (vcr), is a chemotherapy drug, useful in the treatment of leukemia, lymphoma and solid tumor and it is a potent neurotoxin and sensory neuropathy drug which a common behavioral toxicity of this drug. neuropathy is common squeal of intensive chemotherapy protocols that contain vincristine and corticosteroids. materials and methods: this study was a retrospective and desc...

we present a woman referred with underlying non-hodgkin's lymphoma (nhl) masquerading clinically with guillain-barré syndrome (gbs) like syndrome. at first evaluation, chest ct-scan along with brain and whole spine mri were normal. electrodiagnostic studies were in favor of acute generalized polyradiculoneuropathy. laboratory evaluation revealed hypoglycorrhachia. she treated with plasmapheresi...

in this case we report the detection of lymph node metastases in a 52 years old patient with mycosis fungoides utilising 18f- fdg-pet/ct which led to a change in the management of the patient.

Neurolymphomatosis is a rare manifestation of non-Hodgkin lymphoma characterized by infiltration of peripheral nerves, nerve roots, plexus and cranial nerves by malignant lymphocytes. This report presents positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT)imaging with 2-deoxy-2-18F-fluoro-D-glucose (18F-FDG) in 3 cases of non-Hodgkin lymphoma with nerve infiltration, including one newly d...

primary non-hodgkin lymphoma of the larynx is rare, accounting for less than 1% of all laryngeal neoplasms. fewer than 100 cases have been reported in the literatureand to our knowledge this may be the first reported case of laryngeal non hodgkin lymphoma presented with hoarseness, aortic aneurysm, hepatitis b and skin rashes.

a case of primary malignant non-hodgkin's lymphoma of the breast is reported. this is the first well-documented case of breast lymphoma in our institution and also in iran. the diagnosis of primary breast lymphoma requires the presence of lymphomatous infiltration in close ass, tissue in patients with neither previous lymphoma nor concurrent lymphoma in another site. there is no definite c...