[Lymphoma in patients harboring hepatosplenic mansonic schistosomiasis].
BACKGROUND
Correlation between infectious agents and linfoproliferative diseases are more stablished, over all virus and bacteria, through the activation of linfocytes.


OBJECTIVE
To describe six new cases, of a series of 254 patients (2,36%) with mansonic schistosomiasis, in the hepatosplenic form.


METHODS
Six patients will be described, amongst the 254 carriers of mansonic schistosomiasis, in the hepatosplenic form, followed in the last 13 years.


RESULTS
All the six cases had occurred in women. The histopathologic examinations had evidenced two cases of marginal splenic zone lymphomas, one of great cells with immunoblasts lymphomas, one diffuse lymphomas, a great cells malignant lymphomas, a great not clivads cells, and another case of Hodgkin. Half of the six evolved for the death 4-15 months after the diagnosis. The others three persist in accompaniment in the Oncology Division of the Clinics Hospital.


CONCLUSIONS
The incidence of lymphomas in the 254 mansonic schistosomiasis patients followed in our clinic was of 2,36%. At last, this article intends to call the attention, for the occurrence of lymphomas, in the spleen of patients with mansonic schistosomiasis, in the hepatosplenic form.
Ferraz
Alvaro Antônio Bandeira
AA
Departamento de Cirurgia, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, PE. aabf@truenet.com.br
de Sá
Vladimir Curvêlo Tavares
VC
Lopes
Edmundo Pessoa de Almeida
EP
de Araújo
José Guido Corrêa
JG
Martins
Antônio Cavalcanti de Albuquerque
AC
Ferraz
Edmundo Machado
EM
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008109:Liver Diseases, Parasitic / Q000150:complications*; D008223:Lymphoma / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis; D008875:Middle Aged; D012555:Schistosomiasis mansoni / Q000150:complications*; D013158:Splenic Diseases / Q000150:complications*; D013160:Splenic Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis