Acta Medica Okayama volume75 issue5
2021-10 発行
Iwamuro, Masaya
Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Yamasaki, Yasushi
Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Tanaka, Takehiro
Department of Pathology, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Asada, Noboru
Department of Hematology and Oncology, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Matsuoka, Ken-ichi
Department of Hematology and Oncology, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Hiraoka, Sakiko
Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Kawahara, Yoshiro
Department of Practical Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, Okayama University Hospital
Okada, Hiroyuki
Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences
A 77-year-old Japanese woman who had been treated for follicular lymphoma for 8 years developed abdominal pain and intra-abdominal lymphadenopathies. Colonoscopy revealed an elevated lesion in the rectum, which presented as two humps with erosions. A diagnosis of histologic transformation of follicular lymphoma to diffuse large B-cell lymphoma was made by endoscopic biopsy. This case underscores the importance of endoscopy examinations and biopsy of newly emerged gastrointestinal lesions for the prompt diagnosis of histologic transformation, since salvage chemotherapy must be initiated quickly in such cases.
colorectal lymphoma
follicular lymphoma
diffuse large B-cell lymphoma
histologic transformation