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B-cell lymphoma differential diagnosis
Introduction
Overview
Overview
Differentiating B-cell Lymphoma From Other Diseases
Differentiating B-cell Lymphoma From Other Diseases
B-cell Lymphoma must be differentiated from other diseases that cause lymphadenopathy, fever, night sweat, or unintentional weight loss such as:[1][2][3][4][5][6]
- T-cell lymphoma
- Kaposi sarcoma
- Leukemias
- Metastatic breast cancer
- Metastatic renal cancer
- Metastatic thyroid cancer
- Metastatic carcinoma of the lung
- Metastatic carcinoma of the gastrointestinal system
- Neuroblastoma
- Retroperitoneal cancer
- Pediatric acute myelocytic leukemia
- Rhabdomyosarcoma
- Melanoma
- Head and neck cancer
- Castleman disease
- Miscellaneous conditions
References
References
- ↑ Gaddey HL, Riegel AM (December 2016). “Unexplained Lymphadenopathy: Evaluation and Differential Diagnosis”. Am Fam Physician. 94 (11): 896–903. PMID 27929264.
- ↑ Maini R, Nagalli S. PMID 32644344 Check
|pmid=value (help). Missing or empty|title=(help) - ↑ Mohseni S, Shojaiefard A, Khorgami Z, Alinejad S, Ghorbani A, Ghafouri A (March 2014). “Peripheral lymphadenopathy: approach and diagnostic tools”. Iran J Med Sci. 39 (2 Suppl): 158–70. PMC 3993046. PMID 24753638.
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|title=(help) - ↑ Ferrer R (October 1998). “Lymphadenopathy: differential diagnosis and evaluation”. Am Fam Physician. 58 (6): 1313–20. PMID 9803196.
- ↑ Roca B (2009). “Castleman’s Disease. A Review”. AIDS Rev. 11 (1): 3–7. PMID 19290029.
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