Splenic lymphoma in HCV positive patient; a case report

ABSTRACT

Splenic Lymphoma is a marginal zone lymphoma [MZL's] that is a type of Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma. It is characterized by a lymphocytic tumor of marginal zone of spleen that may involve splenic hilar lymph nodes and may spill the abnormal BLymphocytes in the blood. A38 years old male, known HCV, presented with pain in left hypochondrium and an abdominal mass in left hypochondriac region. He was diagnosed clinically as a case of splenic hematoma which turned to be splenic lymphoma after investigations and was treated