21st European Congress of Pathology Istanbul, Turkey, September 08-13, 2007 http://www.ecp2007istanbul.org/ Slide Seminar 10, September 12th Benign Hematopoetic Proliferations Mimicking Malignancies and Borderline Lymphoproliferative Lesions
Chairpersons: P. Kurtin, İ. Kuzu
Clinical History Male, 14 years old, from West Africa with a history of malaria and generalized lymphadenopathy. He was admitted with high fever, generalized lymphadenopathy and hepatosplenomegaly. An inguinal lymph node was removed (case submitted). The patient did not respond to steroids and had 5 courses of an antracyclin based chemotherapy regimen, with complete remission. He relapsed five years later with the same histological picture in the cervical lymph nodes. He was treated with steroids and is well with a slightly depressed immune system.
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