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A Rare Case of Aggressive, Huge Primary Orbital Lymphoma with Intracranial Extension and Bone Invasion

Primary orbital lymphoma is a rare entity with only 1% of extranodal lymphomas. They usually present to ophthalmologist and surgical reserved for biopsy or tissue diagnosis. We present a patient who was referred to neurosurgery for a rapid growing orbital lymphoma. It grows from a small nodule in th...

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Autor principal: Sriram, Prabu Rau
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5652119/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29114307
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1793-5482.185055
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description Primary orbital lymphoma is a rare entity with only 1% of extranodal lymphomas. They usually present to ophthalmologist and surgical reserved for biopsy or tissue diagnosis. We present a patient who was referred to neurosurgery for a rapid growing orbital lymphoma. It grows from a small nodule in the eyelid to a huge, aggressive, disfiguring lesion invading bone and dura with intracranial extension within 3 months. The patient was treated with total surgical excision followed by systemic chemotherapy.
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spelling pubmed-56521192017-11-07 A Rare Case of Aggressive, Huge Primary Orbital Lymphoma with Intracranial Extension and Bone Invasion Sriram, Prabu Rau Asian J Neurosurg Case Report Primary orbital lymphoma is a rare entity with only 1% of extranodal lymphomas. They usually present to ophthalmologist and surgical reserved for biopsy or tissue diagnosis. We present a patient who was referred to neurosurgery for a rapid growing orbital lymphoma. It grows from a small nodule in the eyelid to a huge, aggressive, disfiguring lesion invading bone and dura with intracranial extension within 3 months. The patient was treated with total surgical excision followed by systemic chemotherapy. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2017 /pmc/articles/PMC5652119/ /pubmed/29114307 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1793-5482.185055 Text en Copyright: © 2016 Asian Journal of Neurosurgery http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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title_full A Rare Case of Aggressive, Huge Primary Orbital Lymphoma with Intracranial Extension and Bone Invasion
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title_short A Rare Case of Aggressive, Huge Primary Orbital Lymphoma with Intracranial Extension and Bone Invasion
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5652119/
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