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...

introduction: management of early relapsed or refractory lymphoma [hodgkin & non- hodgkin lymphoma (hl & nhl)] is a matter of problem, especially when hematopietic stem cell support is not available. the aim of this study was to evaluate effectiveness of iev regimen ( ifosfamide, epirubicin, vp16), in lymphoma patients who are not candidate for stem cell transplantation. because the majority of...

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...

Two hundred and ninety cases of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma from the Fars Province Cancer Registry and Mashad University Hospital were reviewed and classified according to the new International Working Formulation for clinical use. The cases fall into low-grade (35 male, 26 female), intermediate-grade (61 male, 26 female), and high-grade (84 male, 26 female) groups. Each group includes several ...

background epstein-barr virus (ebv) is a dna virus which belongs to the herpesviridae family and in γ-herpesvirus subfamily, has been infected about 95% of the world’s population. ebv is transmitted through saliva and associated with different disease such as infectious mononucleosis, nasopharyngeal carcinoma, burkitt`s lymphoma, hodgkin and non-hodgkin`s lymphoma. the study proposed to determi...

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 cl...

primary pancreatic lymphoma is a rare extranodal manifestation of any histopathologic subtype of b cell non-hodgkin's lymphoma that predominantly involves the pancreas. it comprises less than 0.2% of pancreatic malignancies and less than 0.7% of non-hodgkin's lymphomas. this lymphoma is almost never suspected clinically. it is usually diagnosed by surgical exploration for suspected ad...

objective(s): the aim of this study is to evaluate the role of pet-ct in identification of different patterns of extranodal involvement in hodgkin’s disease (hd) and non-hodgkin’s lymphoma (nhl) and to enlist the common sites of extranodal involvement in each histological type and compare our results with the existing literature. methods: in this retrospective study of 281 cases of lymphomas of...

Background: Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma (NHLs) is known as a heterogeneous group of malignant lymphoproliferative disorders. NHLs are classified into B cell and T cell types. Immunophenotypical assessment of the biopsy specimens can help diagnose NHLs.    Methods: In this study, 77 patients with B cell and T cell lymphoma were selected from Shahid Sadoghi hospital during 2010 to 2...