title: Non-Hodgkin lymphoma of the female genital tract mimicking primary gynecological tumors: a single-center series of 3 cases.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Malignant lymphoma of the female genital tract is quite rare and its presentation may resemble that of other, more common tumors, causing confusion for clinicians.
  
  
  METHODS
  The authors report three patients with a non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) involving the female genital tract: two cases involved the ovary and one involved the uterus. In all patients, the genital tract was the initial site of clinical presentation of a B cell lymphoma. One patient was diagnosed postoperatively and subsequently received chemotherapy; the other two patients were diagnosed by imaging-guided biopsy and were successfully managed by chemotherapy without resection surgery. Two patients were alive, without evidence of disease, and one patient was alive with disease at their most recent follow-up visit.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The authors' experience emphasizes that lymphoma should be in the differential diagnosis of pelvic gynecological malignancies, and its clinical, biological, and radiological signs must be actively sought. Imaging-guided biopsy should be performed to avoid unnecessary surgery.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Rahman
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Nakayama
authors.forename: M T
authors.initials: MT
authors.lastname: Rahman
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ishikawa
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Katagiri
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Katagiri
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Sato
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Iida
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Miyazaki
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D005260:Female; D005833:Genital Neoplasms, Female / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D008228:Lymphoma, Non-Hodgkin / Q000473:pathology*; D008875:Middle Aged