title: Pathologic rupture of the spleen in non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
abstract: Pathologic rupture of the spleen was the signal event in the onset of diffuse histiocytic lymphoma in a young woman. The diagnosis of lymphoma was established only after one month of observation. In a review of clinical features of ten patients with pathologic rupture of the spleen due to lymphoma, spleen size was variable, and in four of ten patients a diagnosis of lymphoma had not been suspected previously. In addition to the patient described herein, only two of those previously described survived splenic rupture.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D016403:Lymphoma, Large B-Cell, Diffuse / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis; D012422:Rupture, Spontaneous; D013160:Splenic Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis; D013161:Splenic Rupture / Q000209:etiology*; D013163:Splenomegaly / Q000209:etiology