title: Primary orbital malignant lymphoma: a clinicopathology study of 17 cases.
abstract: We investigated the clinicopathologic characteristics of 17 patients (13 men and 4 women) with primary orbital malignant lymphoma using the Working Formulation. Most of the cases belonged to the low-grade malignancy group, and more women than men were in the histologically high-grade malignancy group. The phenotype of the tumor cells was investigated immunohistochemically. All cases showed the monoclonal feature of a B-cell lineage. All patients received chemotherapy with or without radiotherapy. Of 16 subjects, 15 achieved a complete remission; none of these patients has had a recurrence since the completion of the initial therapy (range of follow-up from 16 months to 10 years). One patient died.
authors.affiliation: Department of Ophthalmology, Hiroshima University School of Medicine, Japan.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Nikaido
authors.forename: H K
authors.initials: HK
authors.lastname: Mishima
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Kiuchi
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Nanba
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000971:Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols / Q000627:therapeutic use; D001706:Biopsy; D003230:Conjunctival Neoplasms / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000473:pathology* / Q000532:radiotherapy; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D016130:Immunophenotyping; D016393:Lymphoma, B-Cell / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000473:pathology* / Q000532:radiotherapy; D008228:Lymphoma, Non-Hodgkin / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000473:pathology* / Q000532:radiotherapy; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009918:Orbital Neoplasms / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000473:pathology* / Q000532:radiotherapy; D012737:Sex Factors