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Clinical, immunochemical and pathological studies were performed in a 27-year-old male who presented with abdominal pain, the malabsorption syndrome, and marked weight loss. Immunoelectrophoretic studies revealed alpha-heavy chains in the patient's serum, urine and intestinal juice. Treatment with
Alpha chain disease is a fairly rare disease (less than 80 cases have been diagnosed to date) the diagnosis of which should be considered as a routine in France when a young arab or oriental jew presents with digestive symptoms such as chronic diarrhoea, abdominal pain of abdominal tumour. The
The clinical and pathological features of 18 new patients with alpha heavy chain disease seen at two referral centres in Baghdad, Iraq, are described. The series included 14 males and four females ranging in age from 14 to 47 years. Almost all patients presented because of long-standing abdominal
A prospective study of 32 patients with primary upper small intestinal lymphoma in our region revealed 10 cases of alpha heavy-chain disease. Patients were mostly in the second and third decades of life and males predominated. Weight loss, diarrhea, and abdominal pain were the most common complaints
A patient with abdominal pain, weight loss, and a gastric mass was found to have a pleomorphic infiltrate of lymphocytes and plasma cells. Analysis of serum proteins revealed gamma heavy chains, which were detected in the urine as well. This case is unusual because of the extralymphatic involvement
Alpha-chain disease is a rare and interesting form of small intestinal immunoproliferative disease. In this paper we present three personal observations with different clinical manifestations. The first patients was admitted to the hospital because of weight loss, feet and ankles edema, and was
The histopathology of 145 malignant lymphomas of the small intestine in Iraq have been studied and results compared with the clinical and immunological findings. The most common pathology was an intense mucosal lymphoplasmacytic proliferation effacing the villi and crypts partially or completely.
Five cases of primary intestinal lymphoma are described. The main clinical features included abdominal pain, diarrhea, and marked weight loss, together with radiologic and some laboratory findings suggestive of malabsorption. Laparatomy perfomed in four cases revealed dilatation of the small
A 20-year-old Persian man with Middle Eastern lymphoma is described, and 84 additional cases from the literature are reviewed. Basically, the disease is a malignant lymphoma which involves the upper small intestine (duodenum and proximal jejunum). It is associated with clubbing of the fingers,