Incidentally Discovered Extranodal Marginal Zone B-Cell Lymphoma of Mucosa-Associated Lymphoid Tissue in the Colon

Raja Chandra Chakinala; Khwaja F Haq; Jonathan E Barsa; Shantanu Solanki; Lavneet Chawla; Muhammad Ali Khan; Taliya Farooq; Beth Schorr-Lesnick

doi:10.1155/2017/1505706

Incidentally Discovered Extranodal Marginal Zone B-Cell Lymphoma of Mucosa-Associated Lymphoid Tissue in the Colon

Case Rep Med. 2017:2017:1505706. doi: 10.1155/2017/1505706. Epub 2017 Dec 4.

Authors

Raja Chandra Chakinala¹, Khwaja F Haq¹, Jonathan E Barsa², Shantanu Solanki¹, Lavneet Chawla¹, Muhammad Ali Khan³, Taliya Farooq⁴, Beth Schorr-Lesnick²

Affiliations

¹ New York Medical College, Westchester Medical Center, New York, NY, USA.
² Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatobiliary Diseases, New York Medical College, Westchester Medical Center, New York, NY, USA.
³ Division of Gastroenterology, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, USA.
⁴ Department of Pathology, New York Medical College, Westchester Medical Center, New York, NY, USA.

Abstract

We present a case of colonic mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue (MALT) lymphoma in a 62-year-old woman diagnosed after a positive test for fecal occult blood.

Publication types

Case Reports