Diagnostic challenges and management strategies of pulmonary mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue lymphoma: a case report and literature review
Jian Tang, Bijun Yang, Yang Bai · 2025
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Description
A rare lung lymphoma that grows slowly can look, on scans, like infection or inflammation, and small biopsies often miss it. Jian Tang, Bijun Yang, and Yang Bai describe in 2025 a 36-year-old woman, a non-smoker with no symptoms, whose routine chest X-ray showed patchy shadows in one lung. Over eighteen months the patches spread to both lungs, yet she still felt nothing.
Standard bronchial biopsy and fluid tests found only nonspecific inflammation, and a course of antibiotics changed nothing. The diagnosis came from an ultrasound-guided cryobiopsy, which takes larger, well-preserved tissue: dense B-cell growth with a monoclonal gene pattern confirmed the lymphoma, and staging scans showed stage IV disease. Because she felt well, doctors chose watchful monitoring over treatment. The authors review the literature and stress larger tissue samples when this cancer is suspected.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Jian Tang, Bijun Yang, Yang Bai |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 17 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |