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Stomach ulcer biopsy showed a dense infiltrate composed of large lymphoid cells, which effaced the normal gastric mucosal architecture.
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Bleeding from the small bowel can be challenging to identify by endoscopic or radiographic evaluation. We present the case of a patient with incompletely treated latent tuberculosis and medical history of T-cell lymphoma who developed gastrointestinal bleeding because of concurrent Burkitt lymphoma, tuberculosis enteritis, and cytomegalovirus enter...
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... for AFB were also positive. Biopsies of the stomach lesions revealed ulcerative oxyntic mucosa with atypical lymphoid infiltration (Figure 3). The malignant cells were CD20 positive (1), CD101, Bcl61, MUM11, and Bcl-2 negative (2), and the Ki-67 proliferative index was approximately 90% (Figure 4). ...
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... The most common site of involvement in the abdomen was the lymph nodes and then the peritoneum. TB can be activated in infected people under such circumstances that the immune system is disrupted, and coinfection CMV with TB can also lead to serious damages in infected people [13]. According to available data, patients with TB are more likely to become infected with CMV. ...
