Extranodal Ocular Adnexal Marginal Zone Lymphoma in a Ten-Year-Old Child

Turk J Ophthalmol. 2020 Mar 5;50(1):53-55. doi: 10.4274/tjo.galenos.2019.62592.

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.

Keywords: Conjunctiva; eye; lymphoma; marginal zone; ocular adnexal lymphoma.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Biopsy
  • Child
  • Diagnosis, Differential
  • Eye Neoplasms / diagnosis*
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Lymphoma, B-Cell, Marginal Zone / diagnosis*
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging