[Diagnosis, care, and therapeutic possibilities in intravascular B-cell lymphoma--a case report]

Orv Hetil. 2005 May 1;146(18):843-8.
[Article in Hungarian]

Abstract

The cutaneous angiotropic lymphoma has a poor prognosis. The diagnosis and the treatment are usually late. The mortality rate is over 80% and the majority of patients die within a year because of the tumorous infiltration of parenchymal organs. The authors report here the medical history and follow up of a still living patient suffering from cutaneous angiotropic lymphoma which has been diagnosed sixty months ago. During the successful treatment course systemic treatment with psoralen ultraviolet A-rays, chlorambucil and cyclophosphamide-doxorubicin-vincristine-methylprednisolone chemotherapy was applied, and for the management of the last relapse, rituximab-cyclophosphamide-doxorubicin-vincristine-methylprednisolone polychemotherapy was used. On the basis of findings in this case a treatment using an anti-CD20 monoclonal antibody could be a promising therapeutic alternative in the management of angiotropic B-cell lymphoma which otherwise considered to be a rare entity.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Antibodies, Monoclonal / administration & dosage
  • Antibodies, Monoclonal, Murine-Derived
  • Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols / therapeutic use*
  • Chlorambucil / administration & dosage
  • Cyclophosphamide / administration & dosage
  • Doxorubicin / administration & dosage
  • Female
  • Ficusin / therapeutic use
  • Flow Cytometry
  • Humans
  • Lymphoma, B-Cell / diagnosis*
  • Lymphoma, B-Cell / drug therapy*
  • Lymphoma, B-Cell / pathology
  • Methylprednisolone / administration & dosage
  • Photosensitizing Agents / therapeutic use
  • Rituximab
  • Treatment Outcome
  • Ultraviolet Rays
  • Vascular Neoplasms / diagnosis*
  • Vascular Neoplasms / drug therapy*
  • Vascular Neoplasms / pathology
  • Vincristine / administration & dosage

Substances

  • Antibodies, Monoclonal
  • Antibodies, Monoclonal, Murine-Derived
  • Photosensitizing Agents
  • Chlorambucil
  • Rituximab
  • Vincristine
  • Doxorubicin
  • Cyclophosphamide
  • Ficusin
  • Methylprednisolone