background and objectives: hepatitis c virus (hcv) is a major public health problem worldwide. replication and persistence of hcv genome have been described in the liver tissue as well as b cells lymphocyte. several investigations have reported that long-term persistence of hcv in b cells may result in hodgkin and non-hodgkin lymphoma. this study was aimed to determine frequency of hcv rna in h...

Non-Hodgkin lymphoma is very uncommon in infancy and skin as the primary site of involvement in Non-Hodgkin lymphoma is rarely encountered. We describe a 10-month-old infant with T-cell Non-Hodgkin lymphoma who presented with multiple skin nodules as the predominant feature of her disease. The clinical manifestations, treatment strategy and disease outcome are reviewed. Key words: Non-Hodgk...

malignant lymphoma is the neoplastic transformation of cells, mostly originating from lymphoid tissues. malignant lymphoma has two major subtypes: hodgkin and non-hodgkin lymphoma. malignant lymphoma is the most common neoplasm in 3rd and 4th decades of life and more than two third of affected patients presented painless peripheral lymphadenopathy. involvement of waldeyer’s ring, epitrochlear a...

non-hodgkin lymphoma is very uncommon in infancy and skin as the primary site of involvement in non-hodgkin lymphoma is rarely encountered. we describe a 10-month-old infant with t-cell non-hodgkin lymphoma who presented with multiple skin nodules as the predominant feature of her disease. the clinical manifestations, treatment strategy and disease outcome are reviewed. key words: non-hodgkin l...

Introduction: This study is aimed to assess the prevalence and characteristics of head and neck lymphoma in a defined group of an Iranian population.   Materials and Methods: In this retrospective study, 126,450 biopsy reports from two referral Pathology Departments, (Tehran, the capital of Iran) were evaluated. In cases with head and neck lymphoma, other variables such as age, sex, specific lo...

despite multiple published studies reporting result of salvage regimens for relapsed and refractory hodgkin's lymphoma, there are no comparisons of different combinations.a total of 44 patients identified with refractory or relapsed hodgkin's lymphoma were considered eligible for this study. the patients were randomly divided into two groups of 22, one of which were treated with gdp regimen (ge...

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 yea...

conclusions a high rate of 25% and 24.13% of hbv dna was detected among patients with hodgkin and non-hodgkin lymphoma, respectively. results three out of 12 (25%) hodgkin samples and seven out of 29 (24.13%) non-hodgkin showed positive hbv dna results. the results of sequencing revealed that the d genotype was predominant among the positive hbv patients. interestingly an unpredictable amino ac...