Conservative Therapy in Two Cases of Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma of the Penis: Case Reports With Review of the Literature
Giampaolo Delicato, Giulio Baffigo, Daniele Bianchi, Giuseppe Farullo, Stefano Signore, Edoardo Tartaglia, Francesco Corvese, Vincenzo Ferdinandi
Abstract
The malignant lymphomas rarely occur in the genito-urinary tract and particularly penis lymphomas are extremely uncommon. Frequently they do not have any specific symptoms and the diagnosis is delayed even in presence of a penis node. In our hospital we observed two patients affected by Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma (NHL), one of them with a primitive disease. Both cases were sexually active men who did not accept a radical surgery. A conservative polichemotherapy treatment by ciclophosphamide, vincristine and prednisone has been proposed and performed for both cases and a complete resolution of disease was demonstrated. At the same time we assessed the erectile function by the IIEF score, before and after treatments.
World J Oncol. 2012;3(1):37-38
doi: https://doi.org/10.4021/wjon438w
Keywords
Lymphoma of the penis; Genital localization of lymphoma; Chemotherapy
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