[Extranodal lymphomas. A rare clinical entity or a protean disease? A case report].
Aim of the present study is to describe a case of extranodal lymphoma localized in paravertebral site, near to thoracic spine. The clinical onset of the affection was as a radicular sciatalgic pain, resistant to long-term current therapy by NSAIDs, and determined by neuroradicular involvement by the neoplastic bulk. The interest of the present case is determined by: 1) the presence of a pain which, for a long while, mimicked one of the most trivial painful syndromes; 2) the fact that extranodal lymphomas are not so rare ones. An extensive research of such entities is therefore mandatory; 3) the diagnosis was made by means of non-invasive examination, and needle biopsy was performed only to confirm a picture which was already patent.
Scarti
L
L
Unità operativa di Medicina Interna e Cardiologia, Nuovo Ospedale del Mugello, Borgo S. Lorenzo, Firenze.
Bartalucci
E
E
Baldoni
D
D
Torsitano
R
R
Cecchi
L
L
D001707:Biopsy, Needle; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D007383:Intermittent Claudication / Q000175:diagnosis; D017116:Low Back Pain / Q000175:diagnosis; D008224:Lymphoma, Follicular / Q000175:diagnosis*; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011859:Radiography; D012585:Sciatica / Q000175:diagnosis; D013131:Spine / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology; D013904:Thoracic Vertebrae