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Composite lymphoma in the anterior mediastinum: a case report and review of the literature

Authors: Guohua Yu, Lingling Kong, Guimei Qu, Qian Zhang, Wei Wang, Lei Jiang

Published in: Diagnostic Pathology | Issue 1/2011

Abstract

We recently encountered an unusual case of Composite lymphoma (CL) in the anterior mediastinum arising in a 37-year-old woman who presented initially with continuous pain in the right shoulder and chest. The woman had been suffered from continuous pain for three months before she went to our department of cardiovascular surgery. Chest computed tomography scan revealed the oval space-occupying lesion of anterior mediastinum. Surgery was performed and the disease was diagnosed pathologically as CL which composed of nodular sclerosing Hodgkin lymphoma and diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, via hematoxylin-eosin (H&E), immunohistochemical staining and in situ hybridization.

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Title: Composite lymphoma in the anterior mediastinum: a case report and review of the literature
Authors: Guohua Yu
Lingling Kong
Guimei Qu
Qian Zhang
Wei Wang
Lei Jiang
Publication date: 01-12-2011
Publisher: BioMed Central
Published in: Diagnostic Pathology / Issue 1/2011
Electronic ISSN: 1746-1596
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/1746-1596-6-60

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