Title of article
Conjunctival Pottranplantation Lymphoproliferative Diorder
Author/Authors
R. Chritopher Walton، نويسنده , , Mihaela M. Onciu، نويسنده , , Farhan A. Irhad، نويسنده , , Terry D. Wilon، نويسنده ,
Issue Information
روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2007
Pages
2
From page
1050
To page
1051
Abstract
Purpoe
To decribe a patient with conjunctival pottranplantation lymphoproliferative diorder (PTLD).
Deign
Interventional cae report.
Method
A 8-year-old boy, three month tatu pot bone marrow tranplantation with bilateral enlarged gelatinou bulbar conjunctiva wa examined. Biopy of the bulbar conjunctiva wa performed.
Reult
Conjunctival biopy revealed a polymorphou infiltrate of lymphoid cell with large atypical immunoblatic lymphoma cell, plamacytoid lymphocyte, and plama cell. B-cell marker CD20 and CD79a were poitive. Plama cell exhibited retriction for kappa immunoglobulin light chain and were poitive for CD79a. Mot cell were poitive for Eptein-Barr viru (EBV) encoded ribonucleic acid. EBV-related polymorphic PTLD wa diagnoed and treated with dicontinuation of cycloporine, reduction in prednione doage and adminitration of EBV-pecific cytotoxic T lymphocyte. The conjunctival leion reolved during the next five week.
Concluion
Pottranplantation lymphoproliferative diorder rarely involve the ocular tructure with mot cae preenting a a maquerade yndrome. Thi cae illutrate that PTLD can involve the conjunctiva and further expand the clinical pectrum of ocular PTLD.
Journal title
American Journal of Ophthalmology
Serial Year
2007
Journal title
American Journal of Ophthalmology
Record number
626951
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