Primary pulmonary lymphoma disguised as asthma
Acta Chirurgica Belgica, cilt.106, sa.1, ss.127-129, 2006 (SCI-Expanded, Scopus)
- Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
- Cilt numarası: 106 Sayı: 1
- Basım Tarihi: 2006
- Doi Numarası: 10.1080/00015458.2006.11679855
- Dergi Adı: Acta Chirurgica Belgica
- Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
- Sayfa Sayıları: ss.127-129
- Anahtar Kelimeler: Asthma, Non-Hodgkin lymphoma, Primary pulmonary lymphoma
- Sağlık Bilimleri Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet
Özet
Primary pulmonary lymphomas (PPL) only constitute 4% of extra-nodal, non-Hodgkin lymphomas (NHL), less than 1% of NHL in general, and between 0.5% and 1% of malignant pulmonary neoplasms. Fifty-eight to 87% of cases of this extremely uncommon disease are low-grade B-cell lymphomas and 11%-19% are high-grade or large B-cell lymphomas. The prognosis for.high-grade or large B-cell lymphomas is worse than for low-grade lymphomas ; respiratory and general symptoms are usually present. However asthmatic symptoms are not often found in their clinic. We report the case of a 49-year old woman with resistant asthma clinic in the form of wheezing, dyspnea and non-productive painless cough ; associated with an irregular lobulated mass with air bronchograms in the lower lobe of the right lung. Histological diagnosis showed a pattern of high-grade B-cell lymphoma and all asthmatic symptoms disappeared following gross total resection of this lesion.