CASE REPORT
Plasmablastic lymphoma presenting as a paravertebral mass in a patient with Crohns disease after immunosuppressive therapy
1 Beaumont Hospital, Dublin, Ireland
2 Department of Haematology, Beaumont Hospital, Dublin, Ireland
3 Department of Histopathology, Beaumont Hospital, Dublin, Ireland
Correspondence to:
Correspondence to:
Dr M Redmond
Department of Histopathology, Beaumont Hospital, Dublin, Ireland; maeve_redmond{at}yahoo.ie
The case of a 32-year-old man with a paravertebral mass and skin nodules, occurring against a background of immunosuppressive therapy for Crohns disease, is presented. The tumours showed morphological and immunophenotypical features of plasmablastic lymphoma. To our knowledge, this is the first reported case of plasmablastic lymphoma presenting in this location, and also after immunosuppression with infliximab treatment for Crohns disease.
Abbreviations: EBV, EpsteinBarr virus; PBL, plasmablastic lymphoma
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