[Antibody deficiency syndrome of the "common variable type" with intestinal lymphatic hyperplasia and secondary gastric carcinoma].
Case report on a patient with agammaglobulinaemia, repeated respiratory infections, diarrhoea and nodular lymphoid hyperplasia of the small intestine. Giardia lamblia was seen in duodenal aspirates. B-lymphocytes were not decreased, but no plasma cells could be found. Later the patient developed a gastric carcinoma, which was also described in previous case reports.
D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D005872:Giardia / Q000302:isolation & purification; D006801:Humans; D007153:Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes / Q000150:complications*; D007419:Intestinal Secretions / Q000382:microbiology; D008206:Lymphatic Diseases / Q000150:complications*; D013274:Stomach Neoplasms / Q000150:complications*
Antikörpermangelsyndrom vom "common variable type" mit intestinaler lymphatischer Hyperplasie und sekundärem Magenkarzinom.