1. Extranodal Ocular Adnexal Marginal Zone Lymphoma in a Ten-Year-Old Child.
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Çetingül, Nazan, Palamar, Melis, Hacıkara, Şükriye, Kamer, Serra, Özdemir, Hamiyet Hekimci, Ataseven, Eda, Selver, Özlem Barut, and Hekimgil, Mine
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B cell lymphoma ,OCULAR tumors ,HISTOLOGICAL techniques ,RADIATION doses ,TUMOR classification ,TREATMENT effectiveness ,DISEASE remission ,TUMOR grading ,CHILDREN - Abstract
A 10-year-old girl was brought to the clinic with the complaint of a salmon-colored conjunctival lesion for 1 month. With the aid of histopathological evaluation and other tests, extranodal ocular adnexal marginal zone lymphoma was diagnosed. The patient was graded as T1bN0M0 according to AJCC and Stage 1 according to Ann Arbor classification. She was treated with external radiotherapy at 1.8 Gy/day for 17 days for a total dose of 36 Gy. She is in remission for 26 months and still being followed up. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
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