Abstract

Chronic viral hepatitis C (CHC) is a global health problem, being responsible for about 399 000 deaths worldwide, mostly from cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma. Virus C infection has well known hepatic manifestations – cirrhosis and liver cancer – but the extrahepatic ones are responsible for up to 75% of morbidity in these patients. The well-known hepatitis C virus (HCV) lymphotropism is probably linked with the most frequent extrahepatic manifestations, mixed cryoglobulinemia and B-cell non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma (BCNHL). We report a very rare entity, the case of an 82-year-old female with Child–Pugh class A viral C cirrhosis associated with a primary renal lymphoma (PRL). PRL is a non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma (NHL) localized in the kidney, without any involvement of extrarenal lymphatic tissue. In addition to the case report, some relevant data from the literature were reviewed here.

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