A case of sinonasal lymphoma

Year 2002, Volume: 9 Issue: 6, 425 - 428, 20.12.2002

Sevilay Aydın Sönmez Ferhat Oğuz Mehmet Ada Burhan Kocamal

Abstract

Sinonasal lymphoma is a rare disease that poses diffi- culties in diagnosis. A fifty-year-old male patient pre- sented with a mass in the nasal vestibulum that destroyed the left nasal ala. Nocardiosis was consid- ered in the light of the initial biopsy findings; however, microbiologic studies were not consistent with pathologic examination. A subsequent biopsy was obtained, which resulted in the diagnosis of peripheral T-cell lym­ phoma. Following the diagnosis, the patient was referred to the oncology clinic to receive chemotherapy.He died during the second course of chemotherapy.

Keywords

Lymphoma/pathology/complications, lym­phoma, T-cell/pathology, nose neoplasms/pathology, paranasal sinüs neoplasms/pathology

Sinonazal lenfoma: Olgu sunumu

Abstract

Sinonazal lenfoma nadir görülen, tanıda güçlük ya- ratan bir hastalıktır. Vestibulumu tutarak sol burun kanadını destrükte eden kitle nedeniyle kliniğimize baflvuran 50 yaflındaki erkek hastadan alınan ilk bi- yopsi sonucunda tanıda nokardiyoz düflünüldü. Mik- robiyolojik incelemelerin bu öntanıyı desteklememe- si üzerine yapılan ikinci biyopsi bulguları, periferik T- hücreli lenfoma tanısı konmasını sağladı. Tanıyı ta- kiben, hasta onkoloji polikliniğine sevk edildi. Kemo- terapi bafllanan hasta tedavinin ikinci küründe yafla- mını yitirdi

Keywords

Lenfoma/patoloji/komplikasyon, lenfoma, T-hücreli/patoloji, burun neoplazmları/patoloji, paranazal sinüs neoplazmları/patoloji.

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