Gaceta Mexicana de Oncología (Jan 2022)

  • Juliana Martínez-Rodríguez,
  • Mayra A. Mora,
  • Kenny Buitrago-Toro,
  • Silvana Jiménez-Salazar,
  • Lina Ma. Leiva,
  • Luis F. Cárdenas-Losada

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 21, no. 91

Abstract

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A 73-year-old man presented to the emergency department for 2 months of erythema, warmth, and blushing on the tip of the nose, with progression to ulcerative and granulomatous tissue and posterior necrotizing compromise of the nasal septum, despite antibiotic schemes. A diagnosis of lethal midline granuloma was made, a disease with a wide spectrum of etiological diagnostic possibilities and usually a poor prognosis. A biopsy sample confirms a NK/T-cell lymphoma. The patient did not accept the proposed chemotherapeutic treatment. He requested voluntary discharge and later died.

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