[A case of Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in a patient with Crohn's disease].
Although adenocarcinoma is a well known complication of chronic inflammatory bowel disease, primary gastrointestinal lymphoma occurring in Crohn's disease is rare. A 40-year-old man with 10 year-history of Crohn's disease had multiple longitudinal ulcerative lesions on descending colon in follow-up colonoscopic examination. Microscopic examination of proximal descending colon revealed peripheral T cell lymphoma and other site of the descending colon was consistent with Crohn's disease. The patient reached complete remission of malignant lymphoma after three cycles of combined chemotherapy. He has been well for 10 months with sulfasalazine maintenance therapy but was admitted to the hospital due to spontaneous bowel perforation of ascending colon. Right hemicolectomy was done, but the patient died of post-surgical recurrent mesenteric abscess and sepsis. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first case of Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma complicating Crohn's disease in Korea which was confirmed by immunohistochemical studies.
Department of Internal Medicine, Chonbuk National University College of Medicine, Jeonju, Korea.
Hyun Chul
HC
Kim
Sang Woo
SW
Nam
Yong Keun
YK
Cho
Hey Jin
HJ
Jeong
Se In
SI
Kim
Seong Hun
SH
Kim
Chul Min
CM
An
In Hee
IH
Kim
Sang Wook
SW
Kim
Seung Ok
SO
Lee
Soo Teik
ST
Lee
D000328:Adult; D003110:Colonic Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology; D003424:Crohn Disease / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D016399:Lymphoma, T-Cell / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology; D008297:Male