Article
Monocytoid B-cell lymphoma arising in extranodal organs.
Cancer - 1 May 1991
Aozasa K, Matsumoto M, Katagiri S, Yonezawa T, Soma T, Sugiyama H, Matsuzuka F, Kuma K
Abstract excerpt
Six cases of monocytoid B-cell lymphoma (MBCL) developing in extranodal sites (thyroid, three; stomach, two; rectum, one) are described. Patients were all women aged 46 to 65 years (median, 53 years). Three patients with thyroid lymphoma presented with an increasing goiter, two with positive serum antithyroid antibodies, and one patient had chronic lymphocytic thyroiditis (CLTH). The histologic type of surgically...
Topics
- Aged
- Antigens, CD
- Female
- Humans
- Lymphoma, B-Cell
- Middle Aged
- Phenotype
- Rectal Neoplasms
- Stomach Neoplasms
- Thyroid Neoplasms
