Primary Lymphoma of the Brain in a Young Man Whose Brother Died of Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis: Case Report: Journal of Intellectual and Developmental Disability: Crimson Publishers
Primary Lymphoma of the Brain in a Young Man Whose Brother Died of Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis: Case Report by Eleonora Džoljić*, Tatjana Stošić-Opinćal, Milica Skender-Gazibara and Vladimir Kostić in Crimson Publishers We report a case of a 25-year-old male patient with primary aggressive diffuse large B-cell lymphoma affecting the brain and PCNSL . Despite one year of medical treatment outcome was lethal. However, our patient had a relatively longer survival compared to median survival time for PCNSL. Additionally, he had two older brothers who died at the age of about 11 years. One died of fulminate malignancy , shortly after pediatric admission , before the diagnosis could be established. The other one died from genetically confirmed (perforin mutation/PRFl) HLH. Our patient was heterozygous carrier of perforin mutation representing the genetic marker for HLH. Our patient’s father was the carrier of the same mutation but had no symptoms of any disease. http