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===Intravascular large B-cell lymphoma===
===Intravascular large B-cell lymphoma===
====General====
*[[AKA]] ''angiotropic lymphoma'', ''intravascular malignant lymphomatosis'', ''malignant angioendotheliomatosis''.
*[[AKA]] ''angiotropic lymphoma'', ''intravascular malignant lymphomatosis'', ''malignant angioendotheliomatosis''.
 
{{Main|Intravascular large B-cell lymphoma}}
=====Clinical=====
*Often a non-specific presentation.<ref name=pmid11579120>{{cite journal |author=Lapkuviene O, Forchetti D, Roepke JE |title=Unusual sites of involvement by hematologic malignancies. Case 1. Intravascular large B-cell lymphoma presenting with CNS symptoms |journal=J. Clin. Oncol. |volume=19 |issue=19 |pages=3988–91 |year=2001 |month=October |pmid=11579120 |doi= |url=http://jco.ascopubs.org/content/19/19/3988.full}}</ref>
**+/-Fever.
**+/-Multiple infarcts.
**+/-Non-specific skin lesions.
 
====Microscopic====
Features:
*Abundant atypical intravascular lymphoid cells that are:
**Large (~2-3X size of a mature lymphocyte or RBC).
**Nucleolus prominent.
 
Notes:
*It may be hard to find RBCs in the vessels.
*Looks sorta like a [[DLBCL]] -- but is intravascular.
 
=====Images=====
<gallery>
Image:Intravascular_lymphoma_-_high_mag.jpg | Intravascular lymphoma - high mag. (WC/Nephron)
Image:Intravascular_lymphoma_-_very_high_mag.jpg | Intravascular lymphoma - very high mag. (WC/Nephron)
</gallery>
www:
*[http://jco.ascopubs.org/content/19/19/3988/F1.expansion.html ILBCL (ascopubs.org)].<ref name=pmid11579120/>
*[http://theoncologist.alphamedpress.org/cgi/content/full/11/8/923/F1 ILBCL in bone marrow (alphamedpress.org)].
*[http://annonc.oxfordjournals.org/content/13/9/1503/F1.expansion.html ILBCL - various images (oxfordjournals.org)].
*[http://path.upmc.edu/cases/case473/images/fig01a.jpg ILBCL (upmc.edu)].<ref>URL: [http://path.upmc.edu/cases/case473.html http://path.upmc.edu/cases/case473.html]. Accessed on: 21 January 2012.</ref>
*[http://path.upmc.edu/cases/case697.html ILBCL - several images (upmc.edu)].
 
====IHC====
Features:<ref name=pmid11579120/>
*CD20 +ve - '''key feature'''.
*CD3 -ve.
*CD34 -ve.


==Burkitt's lymphoma==
==Burkitt's lymphoma==
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