Lymphoid papillary hyperplasia of the palatine tonsil: a Chinese case report

International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Pathology

Jingjing Yu¹  Ming Zhao¹  Changshui Li¹ 

关键词: Palatine tonsils;    lymphoid hyperplasia;    papilloma;    lymphoid polyposis;   

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学科分类：生理学与病理学

来源: e-Century Publishing Corporation

【 摘 要 】

Lymphoid papillary hyperplasia is a rare abnormality of the tonsils with a predilection for affecting young Asian girls. Herein, we report a 31-year-old Chinese woman presented as right lateral recurrent tonsillar hypertrophy with odynophagia and dysphagia over the past 5 years, worsening over a period of for half a year. Clinically, this lesion was similar to papillomatosis or lymphoid polyposis. However, histopathologic study showed a distinctive form of lymphoid hyperplasia with considerable distinct finger-like projections composed of many phyllodes which contained remarkable follicular lymphoid hyperplasia. This is the only Chinese case of lymphoid papillary hyperplasia of the palatine tonsils that has been reported in the most recent English literature so far. The importance of recognizing this disorder rests in the fact that in spite of the clinical features suggestive of both a benign and a malignant tumor, however, the process is a benign tumor-like proliferation, probably non-neoplastic, could easily be cured by tonsillectomy.

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