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Splenic lymphoma presenting as necrotizing glomerulonephritis
T Messiaen1, J P Cosyns, A Ferrant
1Department of Nephrology, Cliniques Universitaires St. Luc, University of Louvain Medical School, Brussels, Belgium.
Clinical Nephrology
|January 7, 1999
Abstract:
The authors report a case of necrotizing glomerulonephritis, with granular immune deposits, leading to the etiologic diagnosis of splenic non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma (NHL). The serum creatinine, initially markedly elevated, decreased under steroids and chlorambucil. Unfortunately, the patient died from septic complications. The importance of a careful search for a (localized) NHL in case of necrotizing glomerulonephritis with granular immune deposits is emphasized.