title: Angiotropic large-cell lymphoma with peripheral nerve and skeletal muscle involvement: early diagnosis and treatment.
abstract: Angiotropic large-cell lymphoma is a disorder characterized by an intravascular proliferation of malignant lymphoid cells. We present a patient with polyradiculoneuropathy, myelopathy, and myopathy diagnosed by peripheral nerve and muscle biopsy, who was treated and remains in stable neurologic condition.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Ohio 44195, USA.
authors.forename: K H
authors.initials: KH
authors.lastname: Levin
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Lutz
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D006801:Humans; D016403:Lymphoma, Large B-Cell, Diffuse / Q000473:pathology*; D008297:Male; D018482:Muscle, Skeletal / Q000473:pathology*; D017933:Peripheral Nervous System / Q000473:pathology*; D013497:Sural Nerve / Q000473:pathology; D013997:Time Factors