Résumé
A rare case of plasma cell leukaemia and papillary serous cystadenacarcinoma of ovary in a 58-year-old female is reported.
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Cystadénocarcinome papillaire/anatomopathologie , Femelle , Humains , Leucémie à plasmocytes/anatomopathologie , Adulte d'âge moyen , Tumeurs primitives multiples/anatomopathologie , Tumeurs de l'ovaire/anatomopathologieRésumé
We present a case of a 28-year-old male weight lifter who died suddenly while driving a bicycle. Forensic autopsy and histopathological examinations revealed granulomatous lesions in the myocardium and hilar lymph nodes. The latter had massive caseation necrosis, epithelioid granulomas and Langhans' giant cells suggestive of tuberculosis. However, the myocardium showed predominantly multinucleated foreign body and myogenic giant cells, lymphocytes, plasma cells, macrophages, eosinophils. Staining for acid-fast bacilli was negative. The present case highlights the difficulty in establishing whether the granulomatous lesions in the hilar lymph nodes and the myocardium are incidental findings or whether they are related by the same pathogenetic mechanisms.