Access through your institution Buy or subscribe Angiotropic lymphoma, also referred to as intravascular malignant lymphoma (IVL), is a rare non-Hodgkin's lymphoma characterized by

massive proliferation of neoplastic mononuclear cells within the lumina of venules, arterioles and capillaries.1 This entity was firstly described by Pfleger and Tappeiner in 1959 as an

endothelial neoplasm.2 Recent studies, however, unequivocally established the lymphoid nature of this rare intravascular lymphoma, based on immunohistochemical, ultrastructural and genetic

evidences.3 No atypical cells can be recognized on peripheral blood smear, since the cells reside on the lumina of the vessels. The obstruction of small blood vessels by lymphoma cells is

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