PMID: 26805189Jan 26, 2016Paper

A Case of Malignant Lymphoma of the Spleen Infiltrating the Diaphragm Treated with Splenectomy

Gan to kagaku ryoho. Cancer & chemotherapy
Hirofumi TerakawaKazuhisa Yabushita

Abstract

A 67-year-old man was treated for diabetes mellitus by his family doctor. A splenic tumor was suspected based on his pain in the left side of the abdomen. He was admitted to our hospital for close inspection and medical treatment. Abdominal CT and MRI scans showed a tumor, 10 cm in diameter, in the spleen. An opaque boundary with the diaphragm was also observed. On PET-CT, accumulations of FDG were observed in the left supraclavicular fossa and the left axilla. The serum levels of LDH and sIL-2R were elevated, and therefore a diagnosis of malignant lymphoma was suspected. Due to the risk of splenic rupture, a splenectomy was performed. After pathological examination, the patient was diagnosed with diffuse large B-cell malignant lymphoma. He is currently being treated with chemotherapy at another medical institute. Splenic rupture occurs in some cases of splenic malignant lymphoma, although the number of reported cases is low. In some of the cases, splenic rupture occurred during treatment of the malignant lymphoma. There is no specific way to measure the risk of splenic rupture; however, performing a prophylactic splenectomy is one option in cases where tumor cells have extended to the capsula lienis, similar to that in our pat...Continue Reading

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