Abstract

A 52-year-old male patient was admitted to our hospital with non­productive cough, dyspnea and chest pain. He had been previously hospitalized in our facility in 2001 for the evaluation of localized con­solidation area on thorax CT. A diagnosis could not be reached by conventional methods, but he was diagnosed as MALT type lymphoma of the lacrimal gland and referred to the oncology clinic. He had re­ceived no medical care during the last five years, after which period the pulmonary lesion was stable. Histopathological examination of the resected consolidation area revealed extranodal marginal zone-B-cell lymphoma of MALT type.