Abstract

We report a case of 18 year old male who presented with hepatosplenomegaly, anemia and thrombocytopenia. His complete hemogram, peripheral smear, bone marrow studies were inconclusive. On immunophenotyping he was diagnosed as "Hepatosplenic gamma delta (gammadelta) T cell lymphoma" which is a very rare variety of T cell lymphoma. Less than 100 cases have been described in the literature since the entity was first described in 1990.

Authors

Pednekar S, Morge V, Rawal S, Korivi D, Ramteke V, Naik K

Institution

Department of Medicine, LTM Medical College and LTMG Hospital, Sion, Mumbai 400022.

Source

The Journal of the Association of Physicians of India 59: 2011 Oct pg 667-8

MeSH

Adolescent
Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols
Biopsy
Bone Marrow
Cyclophosphamide
Doxorubicin
Follow-Up Studies
Hepatomegaly
Humans
Immunophenotyping
Liver Neoplasms
Lymphoma, T-Cell
Male
Prednisolone
Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, gamma-delta
Splenic Neoplasms
Splenomegaly
Vincristine

Pub Type(s)

Case Reports
Journal Article

Language

eng

PubMed ID

22479752