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Intravascular Large Cell Lymphoma Associated with Hypoalbuminemia

1998; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 32; Issue: 1-2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.3109/10428199809059259

1042-8194

Junji Suzumiya, Koichi Ohshima, Motonobu Kanda, Akiko Kato, Kouichirou Shuuda, Nobuhiro Kimura, Kazuo Tamura, Masahiro Kikuchi,

Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia Research

We report here a 71-yr-old Japanese woman who presented with severe anasarca and hypoalbuminemia. She had a postmortem diagnosis of intravascular large B-cell lymphoma, which is a rare type of lymphoma characterized by an intravascular proliferation of lymphoma cells. Severe generalized edema was thought to be attributed to vascular and/or lymphatic obstruction due to proliferation of lymphoma cells within the lumina and/or an increase in catabolism induced by tumor proliferation.