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Case report of a metachronous multiple tumor: Mantle cell lymphoma in the orbital region associated with epithelial malignancies at other sites

Tumor múltiplo metacrônico: linfoma do manto na região orbital associado a neoplasias malignas epiteliais em outros sítios - relato de caso

Here we report the case of a 73-year-old man who was diagnosed with metachronous, multiple primary tumors with non-Hodgkin B-cell mantle cell lymphoma involving the orbit on the basis of biopsy and immunohistochemistry in 2012. The patient had been diagnosed with non-Hodgkin small cell lymphoma and basal cell skin carcinoma in 2010 and intestinal adenocarcinoma with metastasis to the regional lymph nodes in 2011, thus representing a typical case of metachronous, multiple primary tumors. Mantle cell lymphoma is a rare disease and its prognosis is quite poor, particularly when it is associated with other metachronous malignancies. Therefore, physicians should consider mantle cell lymphoma as a differential diagnosis for neoplasms of the orbit.

Lymphoma, mantle cell/diagnosis; Orbital neoplasms/diagnosis; Lymphoma, non-Hodgkin; Case report


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