title: [Cervicofacial extranodal non-Hodgkin lymphomas. Apropos of 82 cases].
abstract: Eighty-two patients with a head and neck extranodal lymphoma were treated and followed up by the same medical team during the period 1952-1981. Most of these tumors, which frequently originated from the Waldeyer ring, evolved by nodal infiltration, first in the neck and later in the abdomen. Association of a GI tract lymphomatous process with a head and neck lymphoma is of particular interest specially regarding gastric localizations (7/82). The treatment of choice is irradiation which is able to control initial head and neck disease, but local recurrences are frequent and represent 25% of the cases. Considering 5 year survivals, it is 49% on the whole series, 57% for the 31 stage I, 41.5% for the 21 stage II; only one patient over the five stage III and IV survived 5 years. For patients with lymphoma of diffuse type, adjuvant polychemotherapy should be considered at the start of management.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006258:Head and Neck Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality / Q000473:pathology / Q000532:radiotherapy*; D006801:Humans; D008223:Lymphoma / Q000401:mortality / Q000473:pathology / Q000532:radiotherapy*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009362:Neoplasm Metastasis; D009364:Neoplasm Recurrence, Local; D009367:Neoplasm Staging / Q000379:methods; D011379:Prognosis
vernacular_title: Lymphomes non hodgkiniens extra-ganglionnaires cervico-faciaux. A propos de 82 cas.