title: Primary high-grade non-Hodgkin lymphoma of the trachea in an adolescent.
abstract: Lymphomas belong to the most treatable and curable malignant tumors of childhood. They should always be considered among differential diagnosis, even in unusual locations, and tumor material should be processed adequately to reach true diagnosis. The authors report on a 16-year-old adolescent with a tracheal lymphoma, a rare location of lymphoma in childhood. Because only formalin-fixed tumor material was obtained, pathology showed two differential diagnoses and the entity could never be fully clarified as anaplastic plasmacytoma or plasmoblastic lymphoma. Thus, full lymphoma diagnostic workup should be performed even in tumors with atypical location.
authors.affiliation: Leipzig University Children's Hospital, Division of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, Leipzig, Germany. C.Dannenberg@web.de
authors.forename: Claudia
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Dannenberg
authors.forename: Rolf
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Haupt
authors.forename: Luisa
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Mantovani
authors.forename: Axel
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Skuballa
authors.forename: Dieter
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Körholz
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001249:Asthma / Q000175:diagnosis; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D003951:Diagnostic Errors; D006801:Humans; D016393:Lymphoma, B-Cell / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy; D008297:Male; D014134:Tracheal Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy