Neurolymphomatosis due to enteropathy-associated T-cell lymphoma clinically diagnosed by FDG-PET/CT and subsequently confirmed by autopsy

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  • FDG-PET/CTにて臨床的に診断し剖検にて確定した腸管症関連T細胞リンパ腫による神経リンパ腫症
  • 症例報告 FDG-PET/CTにて臨床的に診断し剖検にて確定した腸管症関連T細胞リンパ腫による神経リンパ腫症
  • ショウレイ ホウコク FDG-PET/CT ニテ リンショウテキ ニ シンダン シ ボウケン ニテ カクテイ シタ チョウカンショウ カンレン Tサイボウ リンパシュ ニ ヨル シンケイ リンパシュショウ

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<p>A 59-year-old man who complained of abdominal pain was referred to our hospital. Computed tomography (CT) revealed mesenteric lymph node swelling and intestinal perforation. Histopathological study of the resected ileum and lymph node demonstrated diffuse proliferation of medium-sized atypical lymphocytes. Immunohistochemistry results were positive for cluster of differentiation (CD) 3, CD8, and CD56 cells, negative for CD5 and CD4 cells, and negative for Epstein-Barr virus-encoded RNA-fluorescent in situ hybridization (EBER-FISH). It also revealed the expression of γδ T-cell receptors. On the basis of these findings, enteropathy-associated T-cell lymphoma (EATL) was diagnosed. Although the patient received two courses of cyclophosphamide, hydroxydaunorubicin, oncovin, and prednisone (CHOP) and dexamethasone, etoposide, ifosfamide, and carboplatin (DeVIC) therapy, facial nerve and lower limb paralysis manifested. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and lumbar puncture revealed central nervous system invasion of the EATL. Despite intrathecal chemotherapy and high-dose cytarabine therapy, the patient’s neurological symptoms deteriorated. Fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography (FDG-PET) /CT scan showed the accumulation of FDG along both median and sciatic nerves, and he was diagnosed with neurolymphomatosis (NL). He died on day 120 after admission. Autopsy specimens exhibited infiltration of lymphoma cells in the median and sciatic nerves. Although only one case of suspected NL in a patient with type 2 EATL has been previously reported, we clinically diagnosed NL using FDG-PET/CT and confirmed the diagnosis by autopsy. This case is valuable in terms of the pathological diagnosis of NL.</p>

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  • Rinsho Ketsueki

    Rinsho Ketsueki 59 (1), 69-74, 2018

    The Japanese Society of Hematology

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