Andrea Porzionato, Guido Pelletti, Luisa Barzon, Martina Contran, Aron Emmi, Angelo Arminio, Veronica Macchi, Raffaele De Caro
Intravascular large B-cell lymphoma (IVLBCL) is a rare form of lymphomas with poor prognosis, characterized by atypical lymphocytes selectively growing within the lumen of small or medium-sized vessels. Here, we report a case of intracerebral IVLBCL in a 54-year-old man who died three months after symptom onset. The diagnosis was made by postmortem pathological examination, based on the identification of multiple ischemic lesions, with small or medium-sized vessels filled with malignant B-cells, in the cerebral hemispheres, cerebellum, midbrain, and medulla oblongata, including the external cuneate nucleus and trigeminal spinal tract nucleus...
September 19, 2021: Neuropathology: Official Journal of the Japanese Society of Neuropathology