Introduction: Bing-Neel syndrome is a lympho-plasmocytic infiltration of the central nervous system. The Bing-Neel syndrome is a rare entity, which often occurs during the evolution of a Waldenström's macroglobulinemia but can in some cases be the revealing mode of it.
Observation: We report the case of a 56-year-old patient with tumoral form of Bing-Neel syndrome revealing Waldentrom's macroglobulinemia.
Introduction: Acute laryngeal dyspnea is a life-threatening emergency, and the causes in adults are most often laryngeal tumors or inflammatory edema. Lymphoma of the larynx and especially the mantle cell type is extremely rare. .
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWe report the case of a patient diagnosed with a splenic marginal zone lymphoma with a simultaneous finding of hepatitis B virus infection, who responded to antiviral treatment and splenectomy. We highlighted this association described in the literature and its possible causal role, as well as the available therapeutic choices.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Prognostic scores are an indispensable tool in the management of myelodysplastic syndromes.
Aim: Identify prognostic factors influencing overall survival of patients with myelodysplastic syndromes.
Methods: We included all patients with myelodysplastic syndromes treated in the clinical hematology department of the military hospital of Rabat (Morocco).
Acquired amegakaryocytic thrombocytopenic purpura is a very rare condition characterized by severe thrombocytopenia linked to the reduction or disappearance of megakaryocytes in the bone marrow. It may be primary idiopathic or secondary to many pathological conditions including hematologic disorders. We report the case of a 24-year-old patient admitted for haemorrhagic syndrome caused by immunological thrombocytopenic purpura.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPhiladelphia or BCR-ABL positive acute lymphoblastic leukemia (PH+ ALL) is the most common and severe of adult ALL. The only potentially curator treatment remains allogeneic hematopoietic stem cells transplantation (SCT) in first complete remission. The use of imatinib has revolutionized the treatment of chronic myeloid leukemia.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFGranulocytic sarcoma is a rare tumor composed of immature granulocytic cells. Prognosis is poor. The periosteum is preferentially involved.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Bone involvement is a common finding in many types of lymphoma. Cranial vault involvement is extremely rare, and the majority of patients are found at staging to have concurrent disease in lymph nodes. Thirty-eight cases of primary lymphoma of the cranial vault have been reported to date.
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