Title:Co-existence of Follicular Lymphoma in the Lymph Node with High-grade B Cell Lymphoma in the Bone Marrow of a Patient with Spontaneous Tumor Lysis Syndrome
Volume: 20
Issue: 3
Author(s): Chara Giatra, Alexandros G. Sykaras, Fotis Constantinou, Victoria Gennimata, Dimitrios Sampaziotis, Eleni Geladari, Dimitris Kounatidis and Natalia G. Vallianou*
Affiliation:
- Department of Internal Medicine, Evangelismos General Hospital, Athens,Greece
Keywords:
High-grade B-cell lymphoma HGBL, follicular lymphoma FL, spontaneous tumor lysis syndrome, bone marrow
transformation, lymph node.
Abstract: A significant percentage of B-cell lymphomas are characterized by bone marrow
involvement (BMI) at diagnosis. In most cases, there is a concordance between the type of
lymphoma present in the lymph node and the lymphoma present in the bone marrow. Herein, we
presented a sixty-seven years old female patient, who was diagnosed with High-Grade B-cell
Lymphoma (HGBL) in the bone marrow, while simultaneously, in the peripheral lymph node, the
presence of Follicular Lymphoma (FL) was noted. The patient was presented to the hospital with
spontaneous tumor lysis syndrome, a finding compatible with the aggressive course of the HGBL.
To our knowledge, this is the first case of the co-existence of HGBL in the bone marrow and FL in
a lymph node, which might be attributed to merely a coincidence or to the transformation of the
cells in the preferable milieu of the bone marrow.
