[Lymphoma in patients harboring hepatosplenic mansonic schistosomiasis]

Abstract

Background: Correlation between infectious agents and linfoproliferative diseases are more stablished, over all virus and bacteria, through the activation of linfocytes.

Aim: To describe six new cases, of a series of 254 patients (2,36%) with mansonic schistosomiasis, in the hepatosplenic form.

Methods: Six patients will be described, amongst the 254 carriers of mansonic schistosomiasis, in the hepatosplenic form, followed in the last 13 years.

Results: All the six cases had occurred in women. The histopathologic examinations had evidenced two cases of marginal splenic zone lymphomas, one of great cells with immunoblasts lymphomas, one diffuse lymphomas, a great cells malignant lymphomas, a great not clivads cells, and another case of Hodgkin. Half of the six evolved for the death 4-15 months after the diagnosis. The others three persist in accompaniment in the Oncology Division of the Clinics Hospital.

Conclusion: The incidence of lymphomas in the 254 mansonic schistosomiasis patients followed in our clinic was of 2,36%. At last, this article intends to call the attention, for the occurrence of lymphomas, in the spleen of patients with mansonic schistosomiasis, in the hepatosplenic form.