Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz (Mar 1994)

HTLV-I associated cutaneous T-cell lymphoma: report of a case with atypical clinical presentation

  • Achiléa Lisboa Bittencourt,
  • Dilson J. Fernandes,
  • Carlos Sampaio Filho,
  • Edson Duarte Moreira Junior,
  • Terezinha T. Ribeiro,
  • William Harrington Junior

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1590/S0074-02761994000100011
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 89, no. 1
pp. 59 – 61

Abstract

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A case of a 20-years-old black man from Salvador, Bahia with HTLV-I associated T cell lymphoma is presented. In spite of the absence of splenomegaly and leukemia, the patient had a marked cephalic tumoral infiltrationassociated with axillary tumors in a pattern not yet described in adult T cell lymphoma. Peripheral blood involvement was observed later on in the course of thedisease. The patient underwent chemotherapy but died seven monts after diagnosis.

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