Treatment of Extramedullary Myeloid Sarcoma With Radiotherapy

Myeloid sarcoma is a rare pathology with important clinical implications. In this paper, we report the case of a 95-year-old gentleman with an orbital mass, which was later confirmed to be a myeloid sarcoma. We also discuss the role of radiotherapy in regard to this diagnosis in patients.

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Autor principal: Graham, Suzanne R
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
Materias:
Ophthalmology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8281801/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34277267
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.15676
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description Myeloid sarcoma is a rare pathology with important clinical implications. In this paper, we report the case of a 95-year-old gentleman with an orbital mass, which was later confirmed to be a myeloid sarcoma. We also discuss the role of radiotherapy in regard to this diagnosis in patients.
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spelling pubmed-82818012021-07-16 Treatment of Extramedullary Myeloid Sarcoma With Radiotherapy Graham, Suzanne R Cureus Ophthalmology Myeloid sarcoma is a rare pathology with important clinical implications. In this paper, we report the case of a 95-year-old gentleman with an orbital mass, which was later confirmed to be a myeloid sarcoma. We also discuss the role of radiotherapy in regard to this diagnosis in patients. Cureus 2021-06-15 /pmc/articles/PMC8281801/ /pubmed/34277267 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.15676 Text en Copyright © 2021, Graham et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
spellingShingle Ophthalmology
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Treatment of Extramedullary Myeloid Sarcoma With Radiotherapy
title Treatment of Extramedullary Myeloid Sarcoma With Radiotherapy
title_full Treatment of Extramedullary Myeloid Sarcoma With Radiotherapy
title_fullStr Treatment of Extramedullary Myeloid Sarcoma With Radiotherapy
title_full_unstemmed Treatment of Extramedullary Myeloid Sarcoma With Radiotherapy
title_short Treatment of Extramedullary Myeloid Sarcoma With Radiotherapy
title_sort treatment of extramedullary myeloid sarcoma with radiotherapy
topic Ophthalmology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8281801/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34277267
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.15676
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