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[Case of both T- and B-cell markers positive pyothorax-associated lymphoma]
Hirokazu Taniguchi1, Tomomi Ichikawa, Saburo Izumi
1Department of Internal Medicine, Toyama Prefectural Central Hospital, 2-2-78, Nishinagae, Toyama-shi, Toyama 930-8550, Japan. tan@tch.pref.toyama.jp
Abstract:
A 84-year-old man with a history of pulmonary tuberculosis admitted to our hospital due to painful swelling in right front chest wall. His chest CT shows a tumor at right chest wall and right chronic empyema. Histopathologic findings from biopsy revealed both T- and B-cell markers positive non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, and we diagnosed him pyothorax-associated lymphoma. Irradiation resulted in tumor shrinkage, and a pain of tumor disappeared. T- and B-cell markers positive pyothorax-associated lymphoma is rare.
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