Primitive malignant lymphomas of bone. Study of 14 cases.

Between 1953 and 1956, 54 cases of bone tumors initially diagnosed as reticulum cell sarcoma, lymphosarcoma and malignant lymphoma were found in the file of Department of Pathology at A.C. Camargo Hospital. After review of patients' charts, slides and immunohistochemical study only 14 were admitted in the study as primary lymphoma of bone. 11 were of high grade malignancy (8 centroblastic, 1 multilobated cell type, 1 immunoblastic and 1 lymphoblastic) and 3 were of low grade malignancy according to the Kiel classification. No case of true histiocytic sarcoma was found.