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- Title
Florid reactive lymphoid hyperplasia (lymphoma-like lesion) of cervix: A diagnostically challenging case and a brief review of literature.
- Authors
Pai, Trupti; Menon, Santosh; Deodhar, Kedar; Shet, Tanuja
- Abstract
Large lymphoid proliferations are usually regarded as synonymous with lymphomas. However, lymphoma-like lesions. (LLLs) of the cervix are amongst the exception. We report a 46-year-old woman who complained of irregular menses and was found to have superficial erosion in cervix, which on biopsy showed clusters of large atypical appearing lymphoid cells admixed with smaller reactive lymphoid cells. On immunohistochemistry, these large cells were strongly positive for CD20 and CD30 and the background cells were reactive to CD3. Based on the superficial nature of infiltrate and absence of a mass-forming lesion, a diagnosis of LLL of cervix was made. Despite a benign diagnosis, a hysterectomy was done on patient's insistence and only a focus of lymphoid cells similar to biopsy was seen on the operated specimen. Patient is free of disease on follow-up.
- Subjects
LYMPHOID tissue; CD30 antigen; CD20 antigen; BIOPSY; CANCER
- Publication
Journal of Cancer Research & Therapeutics, 2015, Vol 11, Issue 4, p1035
- ISSN
0973-1482
- Publication type
case study
- DOI
10.4103/0973-1482.155979