Immunosuppressed patients.

An unusual cause of colic stenosis in a renal transplant recipient: primary colonic diffuse large B-cell lymphoma

BACKGROUND:Primary colic lymphoma represents a rare disease accounting for the 0.2%-0.6% of all large-bowel malignancies. We here report a case of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma presenting as a left colic stenosis in a patient who had undergo renal transplant 23 years before.

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