primary cutaneous anaplastic large cell lymphoma is a t-cell malignancy with atypical cd30 positive lymphocytes. pseudoepitheliomatous hyperplasia is an uncommon finding in primary cutaneous anaplastic large cell lymphoma, and may mimic squamous cell carcinoma as pseudomalignancy. careful attention of a pathologist to correct diagnosis of pseudoepitheliomatous hyperplasia and its underlying cau...

Lymphomas are solid malignant tumors having a wide spectrum of clinical and pathological features. Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma (NHL) is a subtype of lymphoma with two-thirds of the cases presenting as lymph node enlargement. The remaining one third of NHL cases has been reported in the extranodal sites, including the gastro intestinal tract, Waldeyer’s ring, bone, skin, and brain. Intraoral non-Hodg...

background: lymphomas are a complex group of malignancies that require advanced technology for proper classification. unfortunately uganda, as with numerous other sub-saharan african countries, lacks these resources. as a result, lymphoma diagnoses do not follow who guidelines. methods: histopathology records at makerere university college of health sciences, department of pathology and the pop...

after curative treatment of hodgkin’s lymphoma, increased risk of certain solid tumors has been reported. to best of our knowledge this is the first report of metachronous pancreatic adenocarcinoma which developed outside the previous radiation field in a patient with relapse hodgkin’s lymphoma. herein we present an 81-year-old female who developed pancreatic adenocarcinoma four years after the...

Abstract Background Follicular lymphoma (FL) is the second most common adnexal lymphoma of the eye that almost all of them are reported in elderly patients. Primary FL of the eye has been reported in only two children. Pediatric FL appears to be biologically distinct from typical adult FL. In cases without other organ involvement excision alone with close monitoring is a treatment of choic...

Here we describe a case of a composite mantle cell lymphoma (MCL) and chronic lymphocytic leukemia/small cell lymphocytic lymphoma (CLL/SLL) with 17p deletion in the MCL. The patient presented with 3 years of progressive lymphocytosis. Cervical lymph node biopsy showed morphologic features of nodular MCL and internodular CLL/SLL, two populations of CD5+ cells by flow cytometry, a t(11;14) trans...

dendritic cells (dcs) are professional antigen presenting cells that have a potential role in the initiating of immune responses. the cell vaccination is a new strategy in treatment of infectious diseases and cancers. in this study, we have generated monocyte-derived dendritic cells of lymphoma patient's peripheral blood mononuclear cells then; these cells were used as vaccine in lymphoma patie...

conclusions the current study showed that breastfeeding duration has no protective effect against childhood leukemia and lymphoma. in addition, we suggest that some factors such as living in a rural area, smoking during pregnancy, parents’ exposure to chemical materials and low socioeconomic status can increase the incidence rate of childhood leukemia and lymphoma. results our findings showed t...

in order to evaluate the results of abdominal radiation plus chemotherapy in cases with stage ii and iii of immunoproliferative small intestinal disease in comparison to chemotherapy alone, fifty-one patients referred to shiraz university of medical sciences' affiliated hospitals were studied between 1980 and 1994. out of them 38 patients who had an abdominal mass were gathered into two gr...