{"title":"Four autopsy cases of CNS lymphoma: consideration of unknown causes of death.","authors":"M Kano, J Yoshida, K Sugita","doi":"","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The authors present four autopsy cases of primary CNS lymphoma. In each case death was due to different causes. Case 1 was a typical cerebral herniation. Case 2 was brain stem lymphoma diffusely spread after leukemoid reaction. Patient 3 died because of cerebral and brain stem degeneration without evidence of lymphoma cells. Case 4 was unique and the cause of death was not even established by autopsy (definite unknown death case). Taking together these facts, the authors consider the patho-physiology of CNS lymphoma and indicate that herniation is not frequent after various therapeutic treatments.</p>","PeriodicalId":79360,"journal":{"name":"Noshuyo byori = Brain tumor pathology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1994-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Noshuyo byori = Brain tumor pathology","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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The authors present four autopsy cases of primary CNS lymphoma. In each case death was due to different causes. Case 1 was a typical cerebral herniation. Case 2 was brain stem lymphoma diffusely spread after leukemoid reaction. Patient 3 died because of cerebral and brain stem degeneration without evidence of lymphoma cells. Case 4 was unique and the cause of death was not even established by autopsy (definite unknown death case). Taking together these facts, the authors consider the patho-physiology of CNS lymphoma and indicate that herniation is not frequent after various therapeutic treatments.