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[Pleural B cell lymphoma presenting as paraplegia]
T Hashizume1, A Honda, H Shimada
1Department of Respiratory Medicine, Shizuoka General Hospital, Japan.
Abstract:
A 54-year-old man felt pain on the right side of his chest. Two months later, paraplegia developed. A chest CT scan revealed a pleural effusion and a mass lesion along the right parietal pleura. The lesion extended directly into the adjacent part of the spinal canal and compressed the spinal cord. Cytologic examination of the pleural effusion revealed atypical lymphoid cells, and examination of a transcutaneous biopsy specimen showed monotonous atypical B lymphocytes. The diagnosis was pleural malignant lymphoma. Chemotherapy induced a partial remission, but 14 months after the first examination he died of central nervous system involvement. Pleural lymphoma can directly compress the spinal cord and cause paraplegia. Early diagnosis and therapy greatly affect the outcome in patients with spinal cord compression.
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