title: Primary thyroid lymphomas. A clinicopathological study of 8 cases.
abstract: Eight elderly women with primary non-Hodgkin's lymphoma were treated with a combination of surgery, chemotherapy and radiation with excellent outcome. Clinically, the patients presented with thyromegaly and did not have lymphadenopathy or hepatosplenomegaly. On histological examination, the lymphomas resembled diffuse follicle-centre cell tumours. All patients showed extension beyond the thyroid capsule and lympho-epithelial lesions; 3 displayed kappa-light-chain restriction and 2 lambda-monoclonality. Thyroid lymphomas fall into the spectrum of mucosa-associated lymphomas, which have a better prognosis than their equivalent nodal-based counterparts.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anatomical Pathology, University of Cape Town.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Chetty
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Bolding
authors.forename: C A
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Johnson
authors.forename: H S
authors.initials: HS
authors.lastname: King
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007150:Immunohistochemistry; D008228:Lymphoma, Non-Hodgkin / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology*; D013964:Thyroid Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology*