Abstract
A 9-year-old boy with a large mass in the right lower quadrant of the abdomen was diagnosed as having disseminated Burkitt's lymphoma by pleural fluid aspirate. After 4 months of chemotherapy, he developed acute small- bowel obstruction. A resected ileal segment contained a bright-yellow annular submucosal tumor, histologically a xanthoma, that infiltrated the muscularis propria and serosa. No residual lymphoma was identified. We believe that the small-bowel xanthoma in this child is an unusual, nonneoplastic, treatment- related sequela of lymphoma cell lysis and histiocytic scavenging of lipid- membranous debris.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 299-301 |
| Number of pages | 3 |
| Journal | Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine |
| Volume | 116 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| State | Published - Jan 1 1992 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Pathology and Forensic Medicine
- Medical Laboratory Technology