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Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành y học dành cho các bạn tham khảo đề tài: T Peripheral T-cell lymphoma presenting as an ischemic stroke in a 23-year-old woman: a case report and review of the literature | Journal of Medical Case Reports BioMed Central Open Access Case report Peripheral T-cell lymphoma presenting as an ischemic stroke in a 23-year-old woman a case report and review of the literature Mariantina Fragou 1 Dimitrios Karakitsos1 Alexandros Kalogeromitros1 George Samonis2 and Andreas Karabinis1 Address intensive Care Unit General Hospital of Athens 154 Mesogeion Avenue Athens 11527 Greece and - Department of Internal Medicine Infectious Diseases Unit University of Crete Crete 11244 Greece Email Mariantina Fragou - mariantinaf@ Dimitrios Karakitsos - karakitsosdimitrios@ Alexandras Kalogeromitros - alkal@ George Samonis - samonis@ Andreas Karabinis - echolabicu@ Corresponding author Published 27 October 2009 Received 9 October 2009 Journal of Medical Case Reports 2009 3 83 doi 1752-1947-3-83 Accepted 27 October 2009 This article is available from http content 3 1 83 2009 Fragou et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Introduction Peripheral T-cell lymphoma of the unspecified variant is a highly aggressive subtype of T-cell non-Hodgkin s lymphoma. This is the first reported case of this type of lymphoma presenting as an ischemic stroke in a woman. Case presentation A previously healthy 23-year-old woman presented with fever and hemiplegia. She was subsequently intubated after scoring 7 out of 15 at the Glasgow Coma Scale. Brain computed tomography scans of the patient depicted a massive sylvian infarction while an abdominal computed tomography scan revealed multiple enlarged abdominal lymph nodes and a retroperitoneal mass adjacent to the left psoas muscle. A diagnostic work up for inherited thrombophilia .