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SUBMITTER: Moreno EM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7513544 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Diagnostic pathology 20200924 1
<h4>Background</h4>Primary cardiac lymphomas are extremely rare entities (< 2% of cardiac tumours) and the most frequent histologic type is diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL). Fibrin-associated DLBCL (FA-DLBCL) is a very unusual form of DLBCL associated with chronic inflammation, and only case reports and small series have been described. In the heart, it usually occurs in the context of a cardiac myxoma or cardiac prostheses and it is not bulk forming. These lymphomas frequently present with ...[more]