Lymphomas are solid malignant tumors having a wide spectrum of clinical and pathological features. Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma (NHL) is a subtype of lymphoma with two-thirds of the cases presenting as lymph node enlargement. The remaining one third of NHL cases has been reported in the extranodal sites, including the gastro intestinal tract, Waldeyer’s ring, bone, skin, and brain. Intraoral non-Hodg...

background: lymphomas are a complex group of malignancies that require advanced technology for proper classification. unfortunately uganda, as with numerous other sub-saharan african countries, lacks these resources. as a result, lymphoma diagnoses do not follow who guidelines. methods: histopathology records at makerere university college of health sciences, department of pathology and the pop...

after curative treatment of hodgkin’s lymphoma, increased risk of certain solid tumors has been reported. to best of our knowledge this is the first report of metachronous pancreatic adenocarcinoma which developed outside the previous radiation field in a patient with relapse hodgkin’s lymphoma. herein we present an 81-year-old female who developed pancreatic adenocarcinoma four years after the...

Abstract Background Follicular lymphoma (FL) is the second most common adnexal lymphoma of the eye that almost all of them are reported in elderly patients. Primary FL of the eye has been reported in only two children. Pediatric FL appears to be biologically distinct from typical adult FL. In cases without other organ involvement excision alone with close monitoring is a treatment of choic...

dendritic cells (dcs) are professional antigen presenting cells that have a potential role in the initiating of immune responses. the cell vaccination is a new strategy in treatment of infectious diseases and cancers. in this study, we have generated monocyte-derived dendritic cells of lymphoma patient's peripheral blood mononuclear cells then; these cells were used as vaccine in lymphoma patie...

conclusions the current study showed that breastfeeding duration has no protective effect against childhood leukemia and lymphoma. in addition, we suggest that some factors such as living in a rural area, smoking during pregnancy, parents’ exposure to chemical materials and low socioeconomic status can increase the incidence rate of childhood leukemia and lymphoma. results our findings showed t...

in order to evaluate the results of abdominal radiation plus chemotherapy in cases with stage ii and iii of immunoproliferative small intestinal disease in comparison to chemotherapy alone, fifty-one patients referred to shiraz university of medical sciences' affiliated hospitals were studied between 1980 and 1994. out of them 38 patients who had an abdominal mass were gathered into two gr...

The authors describe a case of histiocyte-rich B-cell lymphoma (HR-BCL), a variant of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, in a 51-year-old man. The patient presented with large axillary lymphadenopathy. Histopathologic and immunohistochemical examination of lymph node biopsy revealed diffuse effacement of the lymph node architecture by reactive histiocytes and neoplastic CD20 positive B cells. ...

malignant lymphoma may occur in the oral cavity and oropharynx, but is most commonly located in waldeyer's ring, particularly in the palatine and lingual tonsil. the occurrence of malignant lymphoma in the tongue is very rare. clinical features are nonspecific ulcerative lesions that do not heal. in the literature, the majority of cases are non-hodgkin’s lymphoma, diffuse large b cell type; how...

primary non-hodgkin lymphoma of liver is a very rare malignancy. here we report a case of primary hepatic burkitt’s lymphoma in a 34-year old man who was known case of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (aids) and presented with weight loss, abdominal pain, and fever. positive laboratory findings were mild anemia and elevated levels of lactate dehydrogenase (ldh) and alkaline phosphatase (alp)....