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A <strong>Board</strong> Question<br />

• A 62-year-old man is seen for 1.8-cm non-tender<br />

left anterior cervical lymph node. The biopsy<br />

specimen i showed h d diff diffuse llarge cell ll non-Hodgkin H d ki<br />

lymphoma. CT of the thorax, abdomen and pelvis<br />

and his labs including BMP, LFTs and LDH were<br />

normal. The patient was seen by oncologist and<br />

underwent bilateral bone biopsy which was<br />

normal normal. The treatment of choice of this patient is is:<br />

• a. Observation because there is no evidence of<br />

metastases<br />

• b. Prophylactic radiotherapy R- CHOP for high grade<br />

• c. ABVD<br />

• e. R- CHOP<br />

non-Hodgkin’s non Hodgkin s lymphoma

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