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Published on: April 28, 2019
Lymph node infarction--a rare complication associated with disseminated intra vascular coagulation in a case of
I Satish Rao1, Anand C Loya, K S Ratnakar
1Department of Pathology, Nizam's Institute of Medical Sciences, Hyderabad, India. isatishrao@rediffmail.com
Background:
Lymph node infarction is known to occur in association with many non-neoplastic and neoplastic conditions however its occurrence in association with DIC is not reported hitherto in the literature.
Case Presentation:
We describe an unusual case of lymph node infarction in a twenty seven year old male following disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC) in a case of dengue fever. Multiple sections of the infarcted and the surrounding non-infarcted lymph nodes failed to reveal any predisposing condition. How ever the parahilar vessels showed thrombotic occlusion, which must have been responsible for the infarction.
Conclusion:
Global infarction of the lymph node may mask the underlying pathology. Any malignancy especially lymphoma may coexist or follow lymph node infarction, therefore the patient needs constant surveillance.
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