Rationale General Background NSHL is the most common subtype of Hodgkin lymphoma in young adults, comprising between 60-80% of the disease in this age group; it occurs equally in males and females, peaks in incidence in the early 20’s, and is associated with higher socioeconomic status and low prevalence of Epstein-Barr virus in the tumors (1,2). Although commonly classified together with the m...

An adult woman developed polymorphic post-transplant lymphoproliferative disorder (PTLD) 58 months after unrelated cord blood transplantation. She was treated successfully with chemotherapy and radiation therapy but presented with lymphadenopathy and splenomegaly 74 months after transplantation. A lymph node biopsy confirmed the diagnosis of nodular sclerosis type Hodgkin lymphoma (classical Ho...

Nodular lymphocyte predominant Hodgkin lymphoma appears in 5% of lymphoma. Because major biological and clinical differences with classical close relationship to T-cell/histiocyte-rich large B-cell lymphoma, lately the term nodular is accepted. The presence cells preserved phenotype a lack CD30 prerequisite for diagnosis Lymphocyte are typically embedded nodules B lymphocytes (growth patterns A...

We retrospectively evaluated the clinical course and biopsy specimens from 51 5 consecutive non-Hodgkin s lymphoma patients in an attempt to determine the clinical importance of documented changes in histology over time. Two-hundred and five of these patients had an initial diagnosis of nodular lymphoma and were reviewed for this analysis. Sixty-three underwent a repeat biopsy greater than 6 mo...

An elderly woman with a complex medical history presented with a left forearm mass that slowly developed for several months. The excisional biopsy of this skin mass was remarkable for involvement by a follicle centre cell derived lymphoma with a nodular and diffuse pattern associated with a subset of scattered Hodgkin and Reed-Sternberg like cells. Fluorescence in situ hybridization studies did...

BACKGROUND Hodgkin lymphoma is one of the most prevalent lymphoproliferative disorders in Pakistan; however, no risk factors for this disease have yet to be established in our population. Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) is a well-known risk factor for Hodgkin lymphoma in endemic regions of the world; however, frequency of its association in our population has not been widely studied. Latent membrane p...

Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma (DLBCL) is the most common type of Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma (NHL) which includes about (25%) of the cases. Patients with DLBCL have a rapidly growing mass that is located in the neck or abdominal region. Multiple Myeloma Oncogene (MUM1) has an important role in lymphoid cell differentiation. MUM1/IRF4 is as oncogene related to myeloma and translocation (p25; q32), t (6...

BACKGROUND Histologic subtypes of classical Hodgkin lymphoma [cHL; e.g., nodular sclerosis, mixed cellularity, not otherwise specified (NOS)] are epidemiologically and prognostically distinctive. Therefore, unexplained, ongoing incidence rate declines for mixed cellularity and increases for NOS require examination. METHODS We analyzed detailed histology-specific Hodgkin lymphoma incidence rat...

In our experience, certain commonly cited immunophenotypic features of nodular lymphocyte predominant Hodgkin lymphoma (NLPHL) are not encountered in day-to-day practice. We reviewed 60 cases of NLPHL (18 women, 42 men; median age, 34 years) to discern immunophenotypic features from a large, single-institution cohort. All cases contained lymphocytic and histiocytic (L&H) cells. These cells expr...