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Pattern of bone marrow involvement in non Hodgkin’s lymphoma classified according to WHO classification: Report of a developing country Pakistan
- Source :
- Journal of Laboratory Physicians, Vol 10, Iss 01, Pp 017-020 (2018)
- Publication Year :
- 2018
- Publisher :
- Thieme Medical and Scientific Publishers Pvt. Ltd., 2018.
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Abstract
- BACKGROUND: Limited information is available from developing countries in patients of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL). Hence, we reviewed the demographical profile along with bone marrow infiltration pattern in patients with NHL presented at Liaquat National Hospital and Medical College. MATERIALS AND METHODS: In this descriptive study, adult patients with NHL were enrolled from January 2011 to December 2015. RESULTS: One hundred and Eighty-four histopathologically confirmed cases of NHL were identified. There were 139 males and 45 females, with a male-to-female ratio of 3:1. The mean age was 48.5 ± 16.0 years with the median age of 50 years. B-symptoms were present in 80.4% of patients. Lymph node enlargement was present in 71.1% of the cases. One hundred and sixty-eight patients had B-cell lymphoma (91.3%) and 16 patients had T-cell lymphoma (8.6%). Overall 158 (85.8%) patients had aggressive lymphoma. The frequency of bone marrow infiltration in our NHL patients was found to be 31.5%. Pattern of infiltrate was diffuse (14.6%) predominantly followed by interstitial (6.5%) and paratrabecular (5.4%) types of infiltration. The least common was nodular infiltrate accounted in 9 (4.8%) patients. CONCLUSIONS: B-cell lymphoma is more frequent than T-cell lymphoma. Younger age, aggressive lymphoma, and predominance of B-symptoms are more frequently seen. Diffuse bone marrow infiltration is more common in our set up probably because of a relatively late presentation in our patients.
- Subjects :
- non-hodgkin's lymphoma
pakistan
who subtypes
Medicine
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 09742727 and 09747826
- Volume :
- 10
- Issue :
- 01
- Database :
- Directory of Open Access Journals
- Journal :
- Journal of Laboratory Physicians
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- edsdoj.3e5508b7a6b942e98613cd6698cc3e01
- Document Type :
- article
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.4103/JLP.JLP_9_17