Prolymphocytic transformation of chronic lymphocytic leukaemia manifesting as a cerebellar lymphoma.
A 75-year-old woman presented with symptoms related to a space occupying lesion in the cerebellum which histology showed to be a malignant lymphoma of prolymphocytic type. A diagnosis of chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL) had been made over 1 year before. This form of lymphoma complicating CLL has not been described previously in the nervous system.
Sheaff
M T
MT
Department of Morbid Anatomy, Royal London Hospital, Whitechapel, UK.
van der Walt
J D
JD
Geddes
J F
JF
Macfarlane
R
R
D000368:Aged; D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D002531:Cerebellum / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015451:Leukemia, Lymphocytic, Chronic, B-Cell / Q000175:diagnosis*; D015463:Leukemia, Prolymphocytic / Q000175:diagnosis*; D008223:Lymphoma / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed