title: An unusual cause of abdominal pain.
abstract: We report a case of subcutaneous panniculitis-like T-cell lymphoma (SPTCL) (they are always alpha/beta) in a 36-year-old male who presented with a 6-week history of abdominal pain, fever and significant weight loss. Definitive diagnosis required a full thickness skin biopsy with PCR analysis for clonal T-cell gene arrangement. A literature search showed that SPTCL is a very rare cutaneous lymphoma limited to case reports.
authors: Imran
authors: I
authors: Badshah
authors: Abdullah
authors: A
authors: Alhaidri
authors: Itty
authors: I
authors: Mathews
authors: Mohammad I
authors: MI
authors: Khan
mesh_terms: D015746:Abdominal Pain / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology*; D034861:Abdominal Wall; D000328:Adult; D001706:Biopsy; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D016410:Lymphoma, T-Cell, Cutaneous / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis; D008297:Male; D015434:Panniculitis / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis; D012878:Skin Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed