title: An autopsy case of intravascular malignant lymphoma presenting with intracranial B-cell type malignant lymphoma.
abstract: This report concerns a 79-year-old man with intravascular malignant lymphoma who was admitted to our hospital for slight right side hemiparesis. Radiological examinations showed a mass in the left parietal lobe, and a brain biopsy revealed a B-cell type malignant lymphoma. The tumor could not be detected on magnetic resonance images following focal radiotherapy, but the patient died of acute progressive pneumonia about 3 months after the onset of symptoms. An autopsy was performed. Microscopic examinations disclosed proliferation of neoplastic cells in the small and medium-sized blood vessels of the adrenal glands, liver, spleen, pancreas, kidneys and epididymis. A diagnosis of intravascular malignant lymphoma was established on the bases of these autopsy findings.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosurgery, Hiraka General Hospital.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Fukuchi
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Fushimi
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Yoneya
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Hirayama
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology* / Q000532:radiotherapy; D016371:Cranial Irradiation; D006801:Humans; D016393:Lymphoma, B-Cell / Q000473:pathology* / Q000532:radiotherapy; D008297:Male; D009383:Neoplasms, Vascular Tissue / Q000473:pathology*; D010296:Parietal Lobe