Primary pulmonary AIDS-related lymphoma

• Published in: Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo Vol. 47; no. 4; pp. 231 - 234
• Main Authors: Corti, Marcelo, Villafañe, María F, Trione, Norberto, Schtirbu, Ricardo, Narbaitz, Marina
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English; Portuguese
• Published: Brazil Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo 01.07.2005; Instituto de Medicina Tropical
• Subjects: Biopsy; Fatal Outcome; Humans; Lung Neoplasms - complications; Lung Neoplasms - diagnosis; Lung Neoplasms - pathology; Lymphoma, AIDS-Related - complications; Lymphoma, AIDS-Related - diagnosis; Lymphoma, AIDS-Related - pathology; Male; Middle Aged; Pulmonary Atelectasis - diagnostic imaging; Pulmonary Atelectasis - etiology; Radiography; TROPICAL MEDICINE; AIDS; Pulmonary lymphoma; Epstein-Barr virus
• ISSN: 0036-4665; 1678-9946; 1678-9946; 0036-4665
• DOI: 10.1590/S0036-46652005000400011

Extranodal involvement is common in lymphomas associated with human immunodeficiency virus infection (HIV) and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). However, primary pulmonary AIDS-related non-Hodgkin's lymphoma is very rare and only few reports were published in the medical literature. Clinical presentation is nonspecific, with "B" and respiratory symptoms. Also, patients were with advanced immunodeficiency at the time of diagnosis. Generally, chest radiography showed peripheral nodules or cavitary masses. Primary pulmonary lymphoma associated with AIDS is generally a high-grade B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma and Epstein-Barr virus is strongly associated with the pathogenesis of these tumors. We report a patient with AIDS and primary pulmonary lymphoma which clinical presentation was a total atelectasis of the left lung.