[Disseminated interdigitating dendritic cell sarcoma]

Medicina (B Aires). 2017;77(3):239-241.
[Article in Spanish]

Abstract

A 70 year-old woman was admitted to our hospital with a 3-month history of abdominal pain, weight loss and night sweats. On physical examination, she presented with a 5 cm diameter abdominal mass extended from epigastrium to the left flank, and at least three bilateral supraclavicular adenopathies. A disseminated interdigitating dendritic cell sarcoma was diagnosed through a biopsy of the abdominal mass. After that, a CHOP regime (cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, vincristine and prednisone) was iniciated. She died after completion of the first cycle of treatment, six months after diagnosis.

Keywords: interdigitating cells; interdigitating dendritic cell sarcoma; sarcoma.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols / therapeutic use
  • Biopsy
  • Cyclophosphamide / therapeutic use
  • Dendritic Cell Sarcoma, Interdigitating / drug therapy
  • Dendritic Cell Sarcoma, Interdigitating / pathology*
  • Dendritic Cells
  • Doxorubicin / therapeutic use
  • Fatal Outcome
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Lymph Nodes / pathology*
  • Prednisone / therapeutic use
  • Sarcoma / drug therapy
  • Sarcoma / pathology*
  • Vincristine / therapeutic use

Substances

  • Vincristine
  • Doxorubicin
  • Cyclophosphamide
  • Prednisone