Lymphoplasmacytoid Lymphoma 'Close' to CLL

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1: Eur Radiol 2003 Apr;13(4):771-9

Extranodal lymphoplasmacytoid lymphoma: spectrum of disease.

Guermazi A, Meignin V, Brice P.

Department of Radiology, University of California at San Francisco,

350 Parnassus Avenue, Suite 150, San Francisco, CA 94117, USA,

ali.guermazi@...

Lymphoplasmacytoid lymphomas (LPL) are non-Hodgkin's lymphomas

characterized by a proliferation of lymphoplasmacytoid cells or

plasma cells with intracytoplasmic monoclonal Ig.

The LPL are low-grade B-cell neoplasms close to B chronic lymphocytic

leukemia with plasmacytoid differentiation. T

hey show an indolent course, typically affect older men, and present

as a disseminated disease with predominantly nodal involvement.

Nevertheless, localized forms, some of them extranodal, have been

described.

The cases that best represent the range of radiographic findings on X-

ray, CT, and MR imaging are presented.

PMID: 12664116 [PubMed - in process]