Primary lymphosarcoma of the lung with unusual features.

Abstract

. (1977). Thorax, 32,[632][633][634][635][636]. Primary lymphosarcoma of the lung with unusual features. Two unusual cases of primary lymphocytic lymphosarcoma of the lung are presented. The first patient is a 5-year-old girl who showed a massive involvement of the entire right lung by tumour. She was treated by radiotherapy followed by cyclophosphamide and was alive and well one year later. The second patient was an adult man who presented clinically with a tumour of the chest wall. Necropsy revealed an extensive direct spread of pulmonary lymphosarcoma with infiltration of the chest wall but without metastatic dissemination or lymph node involvement. Neither primary lymphocytic lymphosarcoma of the lung in a girl of 5 years nor presentation of such a tumour as a chest wall mass in an adult seems to have been described previously.

Localized lymphoid nodules of lung. A reappraisal of the lymphoma versus pseudolymphoma dilemma

“…'-* Subsequent reports, however, have indicated the presence of difficulties in establishing the distinction between these two diseases. [2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20] features tend to overlap. Lesions with features of benign pseudolymphomas of the lung occasionally do not respond to therapy and tend to relapse or are followed by malignant lymphoproliferative disorders while not infrequently patients with primary malignant pulmonary lymphomas are cured solely by excision of their les i o n~.~-'~ The distinction between benign and malignant LLN of the lung frequently results in different therapeutic modalities.…”