BACKGROUND Neurolymphomatosis (NL) is an extremely rare disease and tracheal asphyxia due to NL has not been previously reported. CASE PRESENTATION A 54-year-old Chinese woman with a history of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma in her first complete remission developed peripheral neuropathy and tracheal asphyxia. Neurolymphomatosis involving the right brachial plexus and the right vagus nerve was...

A 64-year-old man developed glove and stocking-type numbness, painful weakness and muscle atrophy of the left arm, and dropping of the left foot during remission of diffuse large B cell lymphoma. Neurological and electrophysiological examinations indicated peripheral neuropathy, mainly involving the left brachial plexus. F-18 fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography (FDG-PET) demonstrate...

Primary neurolymphomatosis is an extremely rare tumor. We report the case of a 74-year-old patient presenting with dysphagia and hoarseness. Initial contrast-enhanced computed tomography of the head, neck, and chest did not reveal any lesions. His symptoms improved with short-term administration of prednisone but recurred and deteriorated. Magnetic resonance (MR) imaging revealed a tumor along ...

We present the case of a 71-year-old woman diagnosed with diffuse large B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma, stage IV-B, IPI 3, in complete remission after 6 cycles of rituximab-CHOP. Fivemonths after completing treatment the patient went to the Emergency Department for a picture of headache and diplopy of one month of evolution. During admission she present lumbosciatalgia refractory to pharmacologic ...

In a patient suffering from peripheral neuropathy due to neurolymphomatosis, fused PET-CT imaging, performed on a novel in-line PET-CT system, showed multiple small nodular lesions extending along the peripheral nerves corresponding to an early relapse of a transformed B-cell non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.