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Anaplastic large cell lymphoma of the ovary in a pediatric patient
Amy Lee Chong1, Bo-Yee Ngan, Sheila Weitzman
1Department of Paediatrics. Division of Haematology/Oncology, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Journal of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology
|August 18, 2009
Abstract:
Lymphoma can rarely present as an ovarian tumor in children. We describe the unusual case of a 14-year-old adolescent with a locally disseminated ovarian anaplastic large-cell lymphoma, treated with surgery followed by chemotherapy, and who remains disease free at 2 years after diagnosis.