title: Primary tracheal lymphoma: case report and literature review.
abstract: We describe a 20-year-old Japanese woman with anaplastic large cell lymphoma in whom primary tracheal involvement was associated with life-threatening airway obstruction. After debulking surgery, the patient was successfully treated with chemotherapy and radiotherapy. A total of 28 cases of primary tracheal lymphoma were reviewed. Common clinical features included predominance of localized disease, respiratory symptoms resembling acute asthma, absence of hemoptysis, and rapid progression of tracheal stenosis. Various histological subtypes of primary tracheal lymphoma exist and are likely to determine prognosis.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cellular Transplantation Biology, Kanazawa University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan. takami@med3.m.kanazawa-u.ac.jp
authors.forename: Akiyoshi
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Takami
authors.forename: Hirokazu
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Okumura
authors.forename: Yoshinobu
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Maeda
authors.forename: Yoshihisa
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Kumano
authors.forename: Hidesaku
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Asakura
authors.forename: Makoto
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Oda
authors.forename: Kenji
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Omura
authors.forename: Shinji
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Nakao
mesh_terms: D001249:Asthma / Q000209:etiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008223:Lymphoma / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology; D008297:Male; D011859:Radiography; D014134:Tracheal Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology