NR ADPU
AU Drlicek,M.; Grisold,W.; Liszka,U.; Hitzenberger,P.; Machacek,E.
TI Angiotropic lymphoma (malignant angioendotheliomatosis) presenting with rapidly progressive dementia
QU Acta Neuropathologica 1991; 82(6): 533-5
PT journal article
AB An 87-year-old male presented with rapidly progressive dementia, disorder of consciousness and myoclonus, suggesting Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, but with nonspecific EEG and negative CT findings. Autopsy revealed a malignant angiotropic lymphoma with accumulation of tumor cells within small vessels of the brain and visceral organs. Immunohistochemistry disclosed a large cell lymphoma of B cell type.
MH Aged; Aged, 80 and over; Brain Neoplasms/*pathology; Cadaver; Case Report; Creutzfeldt-Jakob Syndrome/diagnosis; Dementia/*diagnosis; Diagnosis, Differential; Hemangioendothelioma/*pathology; Human; Immunohistochemistry; Lymphoma, B-Cell/pathology; Lymphoma, Large-Cell/pathology; Male; Viscera/blood supply
AD Pathologisch-bakteriologisches Institut, Psychiatrisches Krankenhaus, Wien, Austria.
SP englisch
PO Deutschland