TY - JOUR
TI - Angioimmunoblastic T-cell lymphoma-associated arthritis case report and
literature review
AU - Tsochatzis, E
AU - Vassilopoulos, D
AU - Deutsch, M
AU - Filiotou, A and
AU - Tasidou, A
AU - Archimandritis, AJ
JO - JCR-JOURNAL OF CLINICAL RHEUMATOLOGY
PY - 2005
VL - 11
TODO - 6
SP - 326-328
PB - Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins
SN - null
TODO - 10.1097/01.rhu.0000195105.20029.07
TODO - polyarthritis; T-cell lymphoma; non-Hodgkin lymphoma; rheumatoid
arthritis
TODO - Angioimmunoblastic T-cell lymphoma (AITL) is a rare type of non-Hodgkin
lymphoma with systemic manifestations, including fever, lymphadenopathy,
rash, and rarely arthritis. We report the case of a patient who
presented with symmetric inflammatory polyarthritis and skin nodules
resembling rheumatoid arthritis (RA). The patient responded initially to
low-dose prednisolone, but 12 months later, he developed typical
features of AITL. The characteristics of AITL-associated arthritis from
16 additional cases from the English literature are also reviewed.
AITL-associated arthritis is an uncommon manifestation of
angiommunoblastic lymphoma that can mimic RA, especially when the
typical systemic features of lymphoma are absent. This type of arthritis
should be included in the differential diagnosis of patients presenting
with an inflammatory polyarthritis.
ER -