High-grade mantle zone lymphoma

Cancer. 1987 Dec 1;60(11):2717-20. doi: 10.1002/1097-0142(19871201)60:11<2717::aid-cncr2820601123>3.0.co;2-k.

Abstract

A 66-year-old man with a 6-month history of sweating at night, generalized lymphadenopathy, hepatosplenomegaly, and paraproteinemia was diagnosed to have a Stage IV mantle zone lymphoma (MZL), which behaved aggressively. The neoplasm rapidly disseminated to extranodal sites--the skin, lungs, pleural cavity, and the central nervous system. The neoplasm did not respond to initial double-agent chemotherapy, but it did partially respond to multi-agent chemotherapy. In addition, the neoplasm had histopathologic features not reported previously in MZL--vascular invasion, massive extranodal infiltration, high mitotic count, and convoluted nuclei.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Humans
  • Lung / pathology
  • Lymphoma, Non-Hodgkin / drug therapy
  • Lymphoma, Non-Hodgkin / pathology*
  • Male
  • Skin / pathology