Lymphosarcoma of the mandible associated with macroglobulinemia of Waldenström.
Waldenström macroglobulinemia is a rare progressive immunoproliferative disorder involving lymphocytes and occasionally plasma cells. Unlike the multiple myeloma, this disease has minimal osseous lesions. Lesions in the jaws are very rare. This paper presents a case of lymphosarcoma in the mandible in a 68-year-old woman, who was diagnosed as suffering from Waldenström macroglobulinemia. The possibility of immunosuppression by Leukeran as an aetiologic factor causing the bone lesions is suggested.
D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008228:Lymphoma, Non-Hodgkin / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D008339:Mandibular Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D011859:Radiography; D008258:Waldenstrom Macroglobulinemia / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging