Díaz-Lazcano EI

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ABSTRACT

Background: Lymphomas are cancers of lymphocytes and their precursor cells. It is the most common nonepithelial tumor of head and neck, which represents 3% and, according to the most recent literature, 12% of all malignancies in this region. One of the main features of this disease is the geographical variation of correlation between the anatomical site of presentation with the histological subtype.
Objetive: To identify in head and neck lymphomas the relation between the anatomical site and the histological subtype in patients attending to General Hospital of Mexico.
Material and Method: A retrospective study was designed at the General Hospital of Mexico Dr. Eduardo Liceaga, from 2009 to 2013.
Results: Fifty-seven clinical records were assessed with the result that all lymphomas in head and neck had predominance of B cell lymphomas (50%), with the main histological subtype of diffuse large cell B determined by the Waldeyer’s ring in 69% of these, followed by the T cell lymphoma (39%) with histological subtype T/NB of nasal types representing 91% of these and about 50% of cases had B symptoms.
Conclusion: T cell lymphoma with extraganglionar subtype T/NK of nasal type in nasosinusal region was the highest representative of the disease at the Hospital, followed by B cells lymphoma with subtype of diffuse large cell B in Waldeyer’s ring.