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To the Editor: In February 1965, a 19-year-old man presented with an extranodal natural-killer-cell–T-cell lymphoma, nasal type, affecting the nasal cavity. One of us made the diagnosis of "granuloma gangraenescens," which was considered to be an unclassifiable sarcoma of the reticulohistiocytic system.¹ The biopsy specimens (Figure 1) were also reviewed in 1965 by Friedrich Wegener, who confirmed the diagnosis and ruled out Wegener's granulomatosis. Surgical resection and radiotherapy induced a complete remission, which lasted for 33 years.

View larger version (61K): [in this window] [in a new window]   Figure 1. Nasal-Biopsy Specimens Obtained in 1965. In Panel A, a vessel infiltrated by a typical angiocentric natural-killer-cell–T-cell lymphoma is evident (hematoxylin and . . . [Full Text of this Article]

 

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