Spontaneous splenic rupture in two patients with a blastoid variant of mantle cell lymphoma.

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Spontaneous rupture of the spleen is a rare complication of hematological malignancies, occurring most commonly in patients with acute leukemia, but it has been documented in chronic leukemias and also in lymphomas. We report two patients with histologically and immunohistochemically confirmed mantle cell lymphoma (MCL) who experienced a spontaneous splenic rupture. An 80-year-old woman and a 51-year-old man had...

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