Downgrading of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma following chemotherapy.
A case of high-grade non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (malignant lymphoma centroblastic) is presented which, following chemotherapy, manifested low-grade histology. The importance of repeated biopsies in cases of persistent or recurrent disease following therapy for lymphoma is emphasized.
D000368:Aged; D001752:Blast Crisis / Q000188:drug therapy; D001854:Bone Marrow Cells; D005260:Female; D006651:Histocytochemistry; D006801:Humans; D008228:Lymphoma, Non-Hodgkin / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000473:pathology*; D013154:Spleen / Q000166:cytology