NON-HODGKINS-LYMPHOMA OF THE TONGUE - A CASE-REPORT

Oral manifestations are present in about 3-5% of cases of non-Hodgkin' s lymphoma (NHL) and oral lesions are only rarely the initial manifest ations of NHL. A case is presented of an 80-year-old patient with a NH L of the tongue, without visceral or lymph node involvement. The diagn osis of NHL can be made only by biopsy. The prognosis of NHL seems to be related to the tumour stage, tumour aggressiveness and response to treatment: the oral lesions appear to respond quite well to irradiatio n. Copyright (C) 1996 Elsevier Science Ltd