Endobronchial low-grade MALT lymphoma causing unilateral hypertranslucency

Submitted: February 26, 2016
Accepted: February 26, 2016
Published: December 30, 2004
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Mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue-derived lymphoma (MALT lymphoma) arises not only from the stomach but also from various non-gastrointestinal sites. A thirty two year old woman, suffering from breathlessness for one year, had been treated for bronchial asthma. A chest radiograph showed a mediastinum and heart transposition to the right side and emphysema of the left lung. In the thorax spiral tomography, a mass narrowing left main bronchi, five centimeters in length from the carina, was seen. A fiberoptic bronchoscopy revealed millimetric polypoid lesions those nearly totally obstructed the left main bronchi. The bronchoscopic biopsy showed a diagnosis of MALT lymphoma. She was seen for check-ups following chemotherapy but no further treatment has been carried out.

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Erbaycu, A.E., I. Karasu, F.G. Özdemirkıran, N. Yücel, A. Özsöz, and O. Bilgir. 2004. “Endobronchial Low-Grade MALT Lymphoma Causing Unilateral Hypertranslucency”. Monaldi Archives for Chest Disease 61 (4). https://doi.org/10.4081/monaldi.2004.688.