Extranodal Ocular Adnexal Marginal Zone Lymphoma in a Ten-Year-Old Child
Articles > Article · 2020
Authors: N Çetingül, Melis PALAMAR ONAY, Ş Hacıkara, Emine Serra KAMER, Özdemir Hekimci, E Ataseven, Özlem BARUT SELVER, M Hekimgil
Turkish Journal of Ophthalmology, Journal Indexed in SCI Expanded, International, Scopus, 2020, vol 50, pp 53-55
DOI: 10.4274/tjo.galenos.2019.62592
Summary
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.