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How would you manage a primary dural low-grade lymphoma?

Would you consider observation following surgical resection with negative margins? Would you recommend WBRT and/or ISRT? What would be your preferred dose and fractionation?
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Radiation Oncology · Duke University Medical Center
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Primary dural low grade lymphoma is a rare presentation, usually marginal zone lymphoma, mostly scattered case reports in the literature but one recent series from Memorial Sloan Kettering (de la Fuente et al., PMID 27649904). I would rx similarly for other marginal zone sites. Local rx only, usuall...

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Radiation Oncology · Varian Medical Systems/Allegheny health network
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There are two types of presentations:

localized or multifocal.

For localized. I would treat the involved site to 24-30 Gy in 12-15 fractions.

For multifocal, I would treat the whole brain (the last one I treated was with hippocampal sparing IMRT to 23.4 Gy at 1.8 Gy per fraction covering the entire ...

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