Rare Tumors (Mar 2010)
Splenic non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma without organomegaly: occult presentation with fatal course and post-mortem diagnosis
Abstract
Splenic lymphoma without splenomegaly is uncommon. We report the case of a 68-year-old female who presented with fulminant B symptoms and thrombocytopenia, only to be found to have micronodular large B-cell lymph-oma of the spleen post-mortem. Diagnosis of this rare entity remains difficult and overall prognosis is poor.
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