Affiliation:
1. Department of Hematology and Oncology, Second Hospital of Jilin University
Abstract
Introduction:
A 54-year-old woman was admitted to hospital with chest tightness, shortness of breath, and chest pain on exertion. Her chest computed tomography showed a space-occupying lesion in the right lower lobe of the lung.
Case presentation:
The ultrasound-guided right lung mass biopsy showed mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue (MALT), and the patient was diagnosed with Sjögren’s syndrome (SS). The patient’s symptoms were partially relieved with chemotherapy.
Conclusions:
Autoimmune diseases like SS and systemic lupus erythematosus are recognized risk factors for pulmonary MALT. It is necessary to identify predictors of malignant transformation of SS to pulmonary MALT lymphoma.
Publisher
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)