Avtor/Urednik     Gašljević, Gorana; Lamovec, Janez
Naslov     Malignant lymphoma of the stomach in association with inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor of the spleen. A case report
Tip     članek
Vir     Pathol Res Pract
Vol. in št.     Letnik 199, št. 11
Leto izdaje     2003
Obseg     str. 745-9
Jezik     eng
Abstrakt     We report on a case of a 40-year-old male patient who underwent a gastrectomy because of a biopsy-proven large B-cell lymphoma of the stomach. On surgery, a nodule in the spleen also was noted. Grossly and microscopically, the two lesions were different: the tumor of the stomach appeared white-gray on the cut surface and was a centroblastic variant of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma. Histologically, one perigastric lymph node was involved. Grossly, the splenic nodule was gray-yellow and had a histological appearance of an inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor (IMT). The association between malignant tumor and IMT is rare. In such an association, the latter lesion most often has been reported in the spleen. As EBV may be involved in the genesis of both lymphoma and IMT, we tested both lesions for its presence using in situ hybridisation, but the tests were negative. It remains to be verified whether the association between lymphoma and IMT is more than fortuitous.
Deskriptorji     STOMACH NEOPLASMS
LYMPHOMA, B-CELL
SPLENIC NEOPLASMS
NEOPLASMS, MUSCLE TISSUE
ADULT
HERPESVIRUS 4, HUMAN
IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION
IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY