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How would you treat low grade follicular lymphoma with diffuse epidural involvement? Would you give intratheracal or high dose systemic methotrexate in addition to systemic chemoimmunotherapy?

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Medical Oncology · Columbia University Medical Center

This is a rare presentation of follicular lymphoma especially if its primary epidural lymphoma without presentation outside the epidural space. This entity was traditionally treated with combined chemotherapy and radiotherapy and associated with a poor prognosis of less than a year.

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