Primary Central Nervous System T-Cell Lymphoma(Case Report)

Primary central nervous system lymphoma(PCNSL) is a rare form of non-Hodgkin lymphomas. Lymphoma in central nervous system may be in a primary form or may be secondary due to intracranial metastasis of systemic lymphoma. Most of the cases are B-cell type. Most frequent symptoms seen in PCNLS are motor disturbances, disturbances in alertness, headache, neausea and vomiting, visual disturbances and seizures respectively. The diagnosis can be done by the combination of clinical and radiologic findings and histopathologic examination. Our case had brain stem symptoms and diagnosis-T-cell PCNLS- was made by MRI scan and CSF cytologic analaysis. We thougt that it is worth to report this rare case and discuss under the light of literature.