2017 Volume 149 Pages 193-197
Malignant lymphoma in the head and neck region, such as the tonsils and neck lymph nodes, is relatively common and often has a good outcome histological type, very different in many cases by the degree of progress. Biopsied from the salivary glands, which is also the same malignant lymphoma to obtain a definitive diagnosis. This time we were biopsy in our hospital, to obtain a definitive diagnosis, we report a retrospective study to patients who were treated in our hospital blood internal medicine. Malignant lymphoma 18 cases were salivary glands occur in the case to obtain a definitive diagnosis at the hospital our department in April 1985–August 2015 were examined in the subject. Hodgkin’s lymphoma was seen in 2 cases, while all the other cases were forms of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma: 7 cases of diffuse large cell lymphoma, 7 cases of MALT lymphoma, and 2 cases of follicular lymphoma. Many of the B-cell cases were elderly patients, while the patients with Hodgkin’s lymphoma were under 20 years old.
