Malignant histiocytosis after lymphoblastic lymphoma

Malignant histiocytosis developed in a 19-year-old boy 3 1/2 years after the initial diagnosis of lymphoblastic lymphoma of T-cell origin. The experience with this young adult suggests that a close surveillance of the survivors of lymphoma is mandatory, and a prompt biopsy of enlarged lymph nodes in...

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Published inAmerican journal of diseases of children (1960) Vol. 137; no. 5; p. 474
Main Authors Kim, T H, Chan, W C, Alvarado, C, Zarrouk, S O, Ragab, A H
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States 01.05.1983
Subjects
Adolescent
Biopsy
Head and Neck Neoplasms - complications
Head and Neck Neoplasms - pathology
Humans
Lymph Nodes - pathology
Lymphatic Diseases - complications
Lymphatic Diseases - pathology
Lymphoma, Non-Hodgkin - complications
Male
Neoplasms, Multiple Primary - pathology
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Summary:Malignant histiocytosis developed in a 19-year-old boy 3 1/2 years after the initial diagnosis of lymphoblastic lymphoma of T-cell origin. The experience with this young adult suggests that a close surveillance of the survivors of lymphoma is mandatory, and a prompt biopsy of enlarged lymph nodes in patients treated for lymphoma should be a routine procedure.
ISSN:0002-922X
DOI:10.1001/archpedi.1983.02140310056016