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Posttransplant Lymphoproliferative Disorder after Cardiac Transplantation in Children: Life Threatening Complications Associated with Chemotherapy Combined with Rituximab

Table 2

Current WHO classification of PTLD (2008).

(I) Early lesions
 Plasmacytic hyperplasia
 Infectious mononucleosis-like
(II) Polymorphic PTLD
(III) Monomorphic PTLD (classify according to lymphoma they resemble)
 B-cell neoplasms
  Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL)
  Burkitt lymphoma
  Plasma cell myeloma
  Plasmocytoma-like lesion
  Other
 T-cell neoplasms
  Peripheral T-cell lymphoma, not otherwise specified
  Hepato splenic lymphoma
 Other
(IV) Classical Hodgkin lymphoma-type PTLD