✦ LIBER ✦
Angiotropic lymphoma (malignant angioendotheliomatosis) presenting with rapidly progressive dementia
✍ Scribed by M. Drlicek; W. Grisold; U. Liszka; P. Hitzenberger; E. Machacek
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag
- Year
- 1991
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 478 KB
- Volume
- 82
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0001-6322
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✦ Synopsis
An 87-year-old male presented with rapidly progressive dementia, disorder of consciousness and myoclonus, suggesting Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, but with nonspecific EEG and negative CT findings. Autopsy revealed a malignant angiotropic lymphoma with accumulation of tumor cells within small vessels of the brain and visceral organs. Immunohistochemistry disclosed a large cell lymphoma of B cell type.