Intravascular large cell lymphoma associated with hypoalbuminemia.
We report here a 71-yr-old Japanese woman who presented with severe anasarca and hypoalbuminemia. She had a postmortem diagnosis of intravascular large B-cell lymphoma, which is a rare type of lymphoma characterized by an intravascular proliferation of lymphoma cells. Severe generalized edema was thought to be attributed to vascular and/or lymphatic obstruction due to proliferation of lymphoma cells within the lumina and/or an increase in catabolism induced by tumor proliferation.
First Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, Fukuoka University, Japan. suzumiya@msat.fukuoka-u.ac.jp
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Suzumiya
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Ohshima
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Kanda
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Kato
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Shuuda
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Kimura
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Tamura
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M
Kikuchi
D000368:Aged; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D016393:Lymphoma, B-Cell / Q000097:blood / Q000175:diagnosis*; D016403:Lymphoma, Large B-Cell, Diffuse / Q000097:blood / Q000175:diagnosis*; D012709:Serum Albumin; D019043:Vascular Neoplasms / Q000097:blood / Q000175:diagnosis*
D012709:Serum Albumin