A Rare Case of Primary Pulmonary Anaplastic Large Cell Lymphoma
  • Joana Carvalho
    Pulmonology Department, Hospital de Egas Moniz, Centro Hospitalar de Lisboa Ocidental, Lisbon, Portugal
  • Diogo Paixão Marques
    Internal Medicine Department, Hospital de Egas Moniz, Centro Hospitalar de Lisboa Ocidental, Lisbon, Portugal
  • Inês Oliveira
    Pulmonology Department, Hospital Egas Moniz, Centro Hospitalar Lisboa Ocidental, Lisbon, Portugal
  • Cláudia Claudino
    Haematology Department, Hospital de São Francisco Xavier, Centro Hospitalar de Lisboa Ocidental, Lisbon, Portugal

Keywords

Anaplastic large cell lymphoma, ALK positive, primary lung lymphoma, lung neoplasm

Abstract

Non-Hodgkin lymphomas are rare causes of primary lung neoplasms and most are B-cell in origin. Anaplastic large cell lymphoma is an exceedingly rare type of primary pulmonary lymphoma, with an aggressive clinical course.
We present the case of an 85-year old male patient who attended our Emergency Department complaining of respiratory and constitutional symptoms, and who was found to have a bronchial mass causing subtotal atelectasis of the left lung. Histological examination showed an anaplastic large cell lymphoma and further investigation revealed that it was limited to the lung. To our knowledge, very few similar cases have been reported in the literature.

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    Published: 2019-09-09
    Issue: Vol 6 No 9 (view)


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    Carvalho J, Paixão Marques D, Oliveira I, Claudino C. A Rare Case of Primary Pulmonary Anaplastic Large Cell Lymphoma. EJCRIM 2019;6 doi:10.12890/2019_001249.

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