Abstract
A case of a 20-years-old black man from Salvador, Bahia with HTLV-I associated T cell lymphoma is presented. In spite of the absence of splenomegaly and leukemia, the patient had a marked cephalic tumoral infiltrationassociated with axillary tumors in a pattern not yet described in adult T cell lymphoma. Peripheral blood involvement was observed later on in the course of thedisease. The patient underwent chemotherapy but died seven monts after diagnosis.
adult T cell lymphoma; HTLV-1; cutaneous T cell lymphoma
HTLV-I associated cutaneous T-cell lymphoma: report of a case with atypical clinical presentation
Achiléa Lisboa Bittencourt
Dilson J. Fernandes1
Carlos Sampaio Filho1
Edson Duarte Moreira Junior2
Terezinha T. Ribeiro2
William Harrington Junior3
Universidade Federal da Bahia, Hospital Universitário Professor Edgard Santos, Departamentos de Patologia e Medicina Interna, Salvador, Brasil
Universidade Federal da Bahia, Hospital Universitário Professor Edgard Santos, Laboratório de Retrovírus, Salvador, Brasil
University of Miami, Department of Hematology and Oncology, Miami, USA
A case of a 20-years-old black man from Salvador, Bahia with HTLV-I associated T cell lymphoma is presented. In spite of the absence of splenomegaly and leukemia, the patient had a marked cephalic tumoral infiltrationassociated with axillary tumors in a pattern not yet described in adult T cell lymphoma. Peripheral blood involvement was observed later on in the course of thedisease. The patient underwent chemotherapy but died seven monts after diagnosis.
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Mar 1994
