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Extranodal diffuse large B-cell lymphoma presenting as a rapidly growing palatal mass in a patient with prior breast carcinoma.

BMJ case reports · Khobragade T, Chettiankandy TJ, Sardar MA, Sachdev SS, Janardanan A · 2026-08-17

An elderly woman with prior breast cancer presented with a rapidly enlarging palatal mass; biopsy and immunohistochemistry revealed it was a primary lymphoma rather than metastatic breast disease, highlighting the need to consider lymphoma in the differential diagnosis of fast-growing oral swellings.

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