non-hodgkin's lymphoma is the 3rd most common cancers in children. in the present study, to determine pathological and clinical features of this cancer, we reviewed records of 84 cases of non-hodgkin's lymphoma who were admitted to ali asghar and bahrami children hospitals from 1989 to 1996. 59% of cases had small non-cleaved cell (sncc) subtype of disease. 15% were lymphoblastic and ...

Follicular lymphoma is a low grade malignant lymphoma. However, some follicular lymphomas undergo histological transformation into higher grade malignant lymphomas. We recently encountered a diffuse large cell lymphoma which seemed to have progressed from a follicular lymphoma and which finally transformed into a small non-cleaved lymphoma. Each stage of the histological transformation was acco...

background: burkitt’s lymphoma is a high grade b-cell neoplasm, which is a kind of small non-cleaved cell lymphoma . it is presumably the fastest growing human malignancy, and the patients are prone to develop tumor-lysis syndrome. here we present findings on our patients with burkitt lymphoma . materials and methods: this descriptive retrospective study included 46 children with abdominal burk...

Working Formulation (WF), which has been used extensively in the United States and served as a common language to translate between six different classification schemes, failed to recognize MCL as a distinct entity. In the WF, MCL is classified as diffuse small cleaved most frequently, but also as follicular, small cleaved cell type, small lymphocytic lymphoma, diffuse large cell type and lymho...

burkitt's lymphoma is a lymphatic tumor classified as non-hodgkin lymphoma with small non cleaved cells. the disease has an incidence of two cases per million patients in north america, and usually present with an intra-abdominal tumor, or enlarged cervical lymph nodes. massive amounts of peritoneal and plural fluid is rarely seen in these patients. a three year-old girl presented with massive ...

non-hodgkin lymphoma usually presents with generalized lymphadenopathy, but it can also involve any part of the human body. lymphomatous involvement of muscles is a rare presentation and has been reported to occur in only 1.1% in non-hodgkin lymphoma. here we, present a 32 year-old iranian man with primary involvement of spleen, bone, bone marrow and muscle, mimicking soft tissue sarcoma; core ...