[Lymphoma in patients harboring hepatosplenic mansonic schistosomiasis].

Autor:	Ferraz AA; Departamento de Cirurgia, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, PE. aabf@truenet.com.br, de Sá VC, Lopes EP, de Araújo JG Jr, Martins AC, Ferraz EM
Jazyk:	portugalština
Zdroj:	Arquivos de gastroenterologia [Arq Gastroenterol] 2006 Apr-Jun; Vol. 43 (2), pp. 85-8.
DOI:	10.1590/s0004-28032006000200005
Abstrakt:	Background: Correlation between infectious agents and linfoproliferative diseases are more stablished, over all virus and bacteria, through the activation of linfocytes. Aim: To describe six new cases, of a series of 254 patients (2,36%) with mansonic schistosomiasis, in the hepatosplenic form. Methods: Six patients will be described, amongst the 254 carriers of mansonic schistosomiasis, in the hepatosplenic form, followed in the last 13 years. Results: All the six cases had occurred in women. The histopathologic examinations had evidenced two cases of marginal splenic zone lymphomas, one of great cells with immunoblasts lymphomas, one diffuse lymphomas, a great cells malignant lymphomas, a great not clivads cells, and another case of Hodgkin. Half of the six evolved for the death 4-15 months after the diagnosis. The others three persist in accompaniment in the Oncology Division of the Clinics Hospital. Conclusion: The incidence of lymphomas in the 254 mansonic schistosomiasis patients followed in our clinic was of 2,36%. At last, this article intends to call the attention, for the occurrence of lymphomas, in the spleen of patients with mansonic schistosomiasis, in the hepatosplenic form.
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