Hypercalcemia presenting as the initial manifestation of Lymphoma

Volume 4, Issue 1, February 2020     |     PP. 1-9      |     PDF (186 K)    |     Pub. Date: May 10, 2020
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Author(s)

Venu Madhav Konala, Internist and Medical Oncologist, Ashland Bellefonte Cancer Center, Ashland, KY, USA
Sara Ashraf, Fellow in hematology and oncology, Marshall University, Joan C Edwards School of Medicine, Huntington, WV, USA
Sreedhar Adapa, Attending Nephrologist, The Nephrology group, Fresno, CA, USA
Srikanth Naramala, Attending Rheumatologist, Department of Rheumatology, Adventist Medical Center, Hanford, CA, USA
Subhasish Bose, Lynchburg Nephrology Physicians, Lynchburg, VA, USA
Sasmit Roy, Lynchburg Nephrology Physicians, Lynchburg, VA, USA
Chetan Brahma Kammari, Hospitalist, Internal Medicine, Cape Fear Valley Hosital, Fayetteville, NC, USA
Bhaskar Reddy Madhira, Fellow in Hematology and Oncology, Sunny Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY, USA

Abstract
Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, hypercalcemia, malignancy, B-cell lymphoma, T-cell lymphoma

Keywords
Hypercalcemia as an initial presentation of malignant lymphoma is uncommon as many patients with lymphoma develop hypercalcemia late in the course of disease with extensive bone involvement. Also, among subgroups of lymphomas, hypercalcemia is more common in adult T cell lymphomas rather than B-cell lymphomas. We present a case of mature B cell lymphoma presenting as hypercalcemia in the absence of bone lesions. The case report discusses the pathogenesis, symptoms, and treatment of hypercalcemia.

Cite this paper
Venu Madhav Konala, Sara Ashraf, Sreedhar Adapa, Srikanth Naramala, Subhasish Bose, Sasmit Roy, Chetan Brahma Kammari, Bhaskar Reddy Madhira, Hypercalcemia presenting as the initial manifestation of Lymphoma , SCIREA Journal of Medicine. Volume 4, Issue 1, February 2020 | PP. 1-9.

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