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Lymphoma Classification

May be primary (Primary central nervous system lymphoma) or secondary lymphoma (pathologically identical)

Hodgkin lymphoma

Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma

see Mantle Cell Lymphoma.

One classification system for lymphomas divides the diseases according to the size of the white blood cells that has turned cancerous. The large-cell lymphomas have large cells. A large cell, in this context, has a diameter of 17 to 20 µm.

Other groups of lymphomas in this system are the small-cell lymphomas and mixed-cell lymphomas.


see Spinal cord lymphoma.

see Primary lymphoma of the skull base.

Trigeminal lymphoma.


Intravascular lymphomatosis.

B-cell lymphoma

B-cell lymphoma

Primary central nervous system lymphoma

see Primary central nervous system lymphoma.


Lymphoma of a dural genesis is a distinct variant of primary central nervous system lymphoma and is rare. It putatively has a more benign clinical course.