Hubbard Lymphoma Flashcards
describe lymph nodes in lymphomas
non tender and rubbery
Pain in lymph nodes after drinking beer
Hodgkin lymphoma
Back pain and leg edema can suggest what? think lymphoma
retroperitoneal lymph node enlargement
Patients with pre existent CLL developing a diffused Large B cell lymphoma
Richters syndrome
B symptoms
- fever
- drenching night sweats
- 10% weight loss in previous 6 monts
immunosuppressed patients (HIV, organ transplant recipients) are at increased risk for what lymphoma
primary CNS
EBV related to what lymphoma
Burkitt and Hodgkin
in patients with cervical adenpathy, if you consider what things, you will look like a rockstar
- infection
- lymphoma
- unusual disorders (Kikuchi disease, TB)
what would you do if you find a firm rubbery posterior cervical lymph node
surgical excision
-infection is more anterior
what stages of HD do you use radiation?
1 and 2
t(8;22)
Burkitt
t(14;18)
follicular
t(6,9)
aggressive leukemia and some lymhomas
Ann Arbor staging for lymphomas
- “A” lack constitutional symptoms
- “B” B symptoms
- “S” splenomegaly
- Stage I: 1 lymph on one side of diaphragm
- Stage 2: 2 contiguous lymph nodes on one side of the diaphragm
- Stage 3: above and below diphragm
- Stage 4: multiple sites on both sides of diaphragm or bone marrow involvment
treatment for Burkitt
-most aggressive tumor so ALL style chemo
