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Case Series Of Duodenal Follicular Lymphoma, Observed By Magnified Endoscopy With Narrow-band Imaging

Norimura et al., 2011Lymphoma

Norimura, D., Isomoto, H., Imaizumi, Y., Akazawa, Y., Matsushima, K., Inoue, N., Yamaguchi, N., Ohnita, K., Shikuwa, S., Arima, T., Hayashi, T., Takeshima, F., Miyazaki, Y., & Nakao, K. (2011). Case series of duodenal follicular lymphoma, observed by magnified endoscopy with narrow-band imaging. Gastrointestinal endoscopy, 74(2), 428–434. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gie.2011.03.1237

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Case Details

Disease Location

Duodenal follicular

Personal Characteristics

67 -year-old female

Clinical Characteristics

Underwent upper gi endoscopy to investigate epigastric and back pain. She had mild anemia. At duodenoscopy, small whitish granules were observed in the second portion of the duodenum. Magnified chromoendoscopy with crystal violet showed dilatation and irregularity of the villous structures. Magnified endoscopy with nvi demonstrated coil and elongated microvascular patterns within the surface of the lesions and opaque white spots under the microvessels histopathologic exam of target biopsy specimens revealed the presence of the follicular structures consisting of abnormal lymphoid cells with dense nuclei immunohistochemical analysis revealed that the neoplastic cells were positive for CD10 and 20 but negative for CD2 and cyclin d1. Bcl-2 protein was expressed in the cytoplasm of most neoplastic cells diagnosis of duodenal follicular lymphoma. Wait-and-see was adopted.

Remission Characteristics

Repeat duodenoscopy 3 months later revealed the multiple white lesions were improved and had almost disappeared 7 months later nbi-magnified endoscopy were substantially recovered and histological specimens from the mucosa showed no neoplastic changes

Treatment & Mechanisms

Proposed Remission Mechanisms

No major mechanism proposed

Clinical Treatment

None reported

Non-Clinical Treatment

None reported