A Report of a Rare Case of Anaplastic Large Cell Lymphoma of the Oral Cavity

Abstract

Case history: Malignant lymphoma is a neoplastic proliferative process of the lymphopoietic portion of the reticuloendothelial system that involves cells of either the lymphocytic or histiocytic series in varying degrees of differentiation and occurs in an essentially homogenous population of a single cell type. The character of histologic involvement is either diffuse (uniform) or nodular and the distribution of involvement may be regional or systemic (generalized), the process basically being multicentric. A case of oral cavity lymphoma was detected and after various panel of imunnohistochemical (IHC) markers it was diagnosed as Anaplastic large cell lymphomas (ALCL) of oral cavity. Conclusion: Lymphoma of oral regions are very rare and ALCL is rarest. It is of utmost importance to do the IHC, so that the prognosis of the lesion is known at the earliest. In this case since it was detected at a later stage the outcome was fatal.