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Novel Mutations in a Lethal Case of Lymphomatous Adult T Cell Lymphoma with Cryptic Myocardial Involvement.
Current oncology (Toronto, Ont.) - 6 Feb 2021
Hashemi Zonouz Taraneh, Abdulbaki Rami, Bandyopadhyay Bidhan C, Nava Victor E
Abstract excerpt
The autopsy of a 65-year-old diabetic African American male revealed significant left myocardial involvement by adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma (ATLL) despite normal pre-mortem fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) uptake by positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT). Due to pre-existing diabetic cardiomyopathy with reduced ejection fraction (EF) and compatible imaging studies, cardiac lymphomatous involvement...
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