[Primary extranodal non-Hodgkin's lymphoma of muscle tissue]

Recenti Prog Med. 1997 Apr;88(4):166-8.
[Article in Italian]

Abstract

Primary muscular involvement is extremely rare in non-Hodgkin's lymphomas. To our knowledge few cases are reported in literature and all of them concern patients with unifocal muscular lymphoid masses usually growing in one of the extremities. Our case-report, instead, regards a 78 years-old woman presenting primary multifocal muscular involvement by extranodal non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (right upper and lower limbs affected at the same time). Therefore, in contrast with the therapeutic approach suggested by other Authors in such neoplasms (radiotherapy or combined radio-chemotherapy), we preferred to administer only chemotherapy. The treatment led to a complete regression of all lymphoid masses. By now the woman is healthy and disease-free as confirmed at the one-year haematological follow-up.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols / administration & dosage
  • Cyclophosphamide / administration & dosage
  • Extremities
  • Female
  • Follow-Up Studies
  • Humans
  • Lymphoma, Non-Hodgkin* / drug therapy
  • Lymphoma, Non-Hodgkin* / pathology
  • Mitoxantrone / administration & dosage
  • Muscle Neoplasms* / drug therapy
  • Muscle Neoplasms* / pathology
  • Muscles / pathology
  • Prednisolone / administration & dosage
  • Time Factors
  • Vincristine / administration & dosage

Substances

  • Vincristine
  • Cyclophosphamide
  • Prednisolone
  • Mitoxantrone

Supplementary concepts

  • MCOP protocol