Suzumiya J, Ohshima K, Kanda M, Kato A, Shuuda K, Kimura N, Tamura K, Kikuchi M
First Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, Fukuoka University, Japan.
Leuk Lymphoma. 1998 Dec;32(1-2):179-82. doi: 10.3109/10428199809059259.
We report here a 71-yr-old Japanese woman who presented with severe anasarca and hypoalbuminemia. She had a postmortem diagnosis of intravascular large B-cell lymphoma, which is a rare type of lymphoma characterized by an intravascular proliferation of lymphoma cells. Severe generalized edema was thought to be attributed to vascular and/or lymphatic obstruction due to proliferation of lymphoma cells within the lumina and/or an increase in catabolism induced by tumor proliferation.
