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Primary malignant lymphoma in the cerebellopontine angle

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 June 2007

Shin Kariya ,
Kazunori Nishizaki ,
Katsuya Aoji  and
Hirofumi Akagi
Shin Kariya*
Affiliation:
Department of Otolaryngology, Kagawa Prefectural Central Hospital, Japan
Kazunori Nishizaki
Affiliation:
Department of Otolaryngology, Okayama University Medical School, Japan
Katsuya Aoji
Affiliation:
Department of Otolaryngology, Kagawa Prefectural Central Hospital, Japan
Hirofumi Akagi
Affiliation:
Department of Otolaryngology, Okayama University Medical School, Japan
*
Address for correspondence: Dr Shin Kariya, 5-4-16 Ban-cho, Takamatsu-shi, Kagawa, 760-0017, Japan. Fax: 81-87-837-6210
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Abstract

Primary malignant lymphoma is an uncommon disease of the central nervous system (CNS). Immunocompromised patients are at high risk of development of malignant lymphoma. We describe a case of primary CNS lymphoma presenting as a solitary cerebellopontine angle lesion. The patient had undergone extirpation of rectal cancer four years previously. Malignant lymphoma presenting as a cerebellopontine angle mass is extremely rare, with only 10 such cases (seven were primary, and the others secondary) previously reported.

Keywords

LymphomaCerebellopontine angleMethotrexate
Type
Clinical Records
Information
The Journal of Laryngology & Otology , Volume 112 , Issue 5 , May 1998 , pp. 476 - 479
Copyright
Copyright © JLO (1984) Limited 1998

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