A case of blastic natural killer cell lymphoma presented as disseminated cutaneous lesions.
- Author:
Keun Wook LEE
1
;
Tak YUN
;
Dong Wan KIM
;
Tae You KIM
;
Dae Seog HEO
;
Yung Jue BANG
;
Noe Kyeong KIM
Author Information
1. Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University Hospital, Cancer Research Institute, College of Medicine, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea. heo1013@plaza.snu.ac.kr
- Publication Type:Case Report
- Keywords:
Natural killer cells;
Lymphoma;
Skin;
CD56;
Chemotherapy
- MeSH:
Asian Continental Ancestry Group;
Drug Therapy;
Herpesvirus 4, Human;
Humans;
Killer Cells, Natural*;
Korea;
Lymphoma*;
Skin
- From:Korean Journal of Medicine
2004;66(4):453-457
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
Reports of blastic natural killer (NK)-cell lymphoma are rare. In previous reports, primary cutaneous blastic NK-cell lymphomas were even rarer. In Asian patients, most CD56+ lymphomas are classified as nasal type extranodal NK/T-cell lymphoma and mostly associated with the presence of Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) and have an aggressive clinical course. Few cases of blastic NK-cell lymphoma were reported previously in Korea but there was no report about blastic NK-cell lymphoma initially presented as disseminated skin lesions without any other organ involvement. We report such a young patient who was treated by systemic chemotherapy.
