Erschienen in:
01.09.2014 | Case Report
Follicular Lymphoma Presenting as an Isolated Colonic Polyp
verfasst von:
Jennifer C. Kam, Dron Gauchan, Vikram Doraiswamy, Robert Spira, Gunwant Guron
Erschienen in:
Journal of Gastrointestinal Cancer
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Ausgabe 3/2014
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Excerpt
Follicular lymphoma (FL) is the most common form of indolent lymphoma and accounts for 20–25 % of all lymphomas [
1]. The gastrointestinal (GI) tract is the predominant site for primary extranodal non-Hodgkin lymphomas (NHL) and is 5–10 % of all extranodal diseases. Primary gastrointestinal NHL is found in the colon and is 6–20 % of all cases with 1–3.6 % being follicular lymphomas [
2]. There has been only one other reported case of a follicular lymphoma presenting as an isolated polyp. We present another case of this same occurrence and include a brief review of this rare event. …