title: Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma of the ovaries and appendix: a case report.
abstract: Involvement of the female genital tract by non-Hodgkin's lymphoma is extremely rare. Here is the report of a patient who presented as a bilateral malignant ovarian tumour and was diagnosed by laparotomy and subsequent histopathology to have non-Hodgkin's lymphoma of both ovaries and appendix. The patient had radical surgery followed by multiagent chemotherapy and is alive without disease at one year of follow-up.
authors.affiliation: Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India.
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Chawla
authors.forename: L K
authors.initials: LK
authors.lastname: Dhaliwal
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Gopalan
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Rajwanshi
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001063:Appendiceal Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008228:Lymphoma, Non-Hodgkin / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy; D009378:Neoplasms, Multiple Primary / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy; D010051:Ovarian Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy