title: [Lymphoma in patients harboring hepatosplenic mansonic schistosomiasis].
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Cirurgia, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, PE. aabf@truenet.com.br
authors.forename: Alvaro Antônio Bandeira
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Ferraz
authors.forename: Vladimir Curvêlo Tavares
authors.initials: VC
authors.lastname: de Sá
authors.forename: Edmundo Pessoa de Almeida
authors.initials: EP
authors.lastname: Lopes
authors.forename: José Guido Corrêa
authors.initials: JG
authors.lastname: de Araújo
authors.forename: Antônio Cavalcanti de Albuquerque
authors.initials: AC
authors.lastname: Martins
authors.forename: Edmundo Machado
authors.initials: EM
authors.lastname: Ferraz
mesh_terms: 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