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Esophageal actinomycosis after allogeneic peripheral blood stem cell transplantation for extranodal natural killer/T cell lymphoma, nasal type

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We report a 19-year-old man with extranodal natural killer (NK)/T cell lymphoma, nasal type treated by allogeneic peripheral blood stem cell transplantation (allo-PBSCT). His lymphoma was chemoresistant, and disseminated during local radiotherapy. The patient received allo-PBSCT from his HLA-1 locus mismatched sister using busulfan (BU), cyclophosphamide (CY) and VP-16 as the conditioning regimen. His course was complicated by esophageal actinomycosis 9 months after transplantation, which resulted in the rupture of the right common carotid artery. These observations suggest that actinomycosis should be monitored carefully after transplantation in patients who have received local radiation therapy before the procedure.

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We thank Dr Takayuki Okamura, Dr Emiko Satou and Dr Keisei Kawa (Department of Pediatrics, Osaka Medical Center and Research Institute for Maternal and Child Health) for performing the PCR analysis of EBV.

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  1. Department of Laboratory Medicine, Osaka City General Hospital, Miyakojimahondori, Miyakojima-ku, Osaka, Japan

    T Yagi, H Fujino, M Hirai & H Teshima

  2. Department of Pathology Osaka City General Hospital, Miyakojimahondori, Miyakojima-ku, Osaka, Japan

    T Inoue

  3. Department of Transfusion Medicine, Osaka City General Hospital, Miyakojimahondori, Miyakojima-ku, Osaka, Japan

    M Sako

  4. Department of Internal Medicine, Osaka City General Hospital, Miyakojimahondori, Miyakojima-ku, Osaka, Japan

    S Fujii

  5. Department of Clinical Hematology and Clinical Diagnostics, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka City University, Osaka, Japan

    M Hino

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Yagi, T., Fujino, H., Hirai, M. et al. Esophageal actinomycosis after allogeneic peripheral blood stem cell transplantation for extranodal natural killer/T cell lymphoma, nasal type. Bone Marrow Transplant 32, 451–453 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.bmt.1704161

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