Large cell orbital lymphoma in a patient with acquired immune deficiency syndrome. Case report and review

Despite the protean ocular manifestations of acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS), orbital involvement is rare and only one previous case of orbital non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma (NHL) has been documented. We report a second case of NHL (large cell) of the orbit in a 28-year-old patient with a 4-year history of AIDS and review the context in which this lesion presented.

Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome/*complications , Adult , Case Report , DNA Restriction Enzymes , DNA, Neoplasm/isolation & purification , Electrophoresis, Agar Gel , Gene Rearrangement, B-Lymphocyte , Genes, Immunoglobulin/genetics , Human , Immunoenzyme Techniques , Lymphoma, Large-Cell/*etiology/genetics/pathology , Male , Orbital Neoplasms/*etiology/genetics/pathology , Tomography, X-Ray Computed

Department of Pathology, Vancouver General Hospital, British Columbia, Canada

PII: S0161-6420(90)32398-9

doi:10.1016/S0161-6420(90)32398-9

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