Hypercalcemia as a rare presentation of angioimmunoblastic T cell lymphoma: a case report.
- Authors:
- Sana Chams,
- Inaya Hajj Hussein,
- Skye El Sayegh,
- Nour Chams,
- Khalid Zakaria
J Med Case Rep 2018 Apr 20;12(1):101. Epub 2018 Apr 20.
Department of Internal Medicine, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Rochester Hills, MI, USA.
Background: Angioimmunoblastic T cell lymphoma is a rare malignancy, accounting for only 2% of all non-Hodgkin lymphomas, first described in the 1970s and subsequently accepted as a distinct entity in the current World Health Organization classification. Due to the paucity of this disease, there is still no identifiable etiology, no consistent risk factors, and the pathogenesis remains unclear.
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