PRIMARY ORBITAL LYMPHOMA - A CASE REPORT FROM MAURITIUS

We report the case of a fifty-two year old lady with a primary large B-cell Non-Hodgkin lymphoma, NHL, of the orbit which is a rare presentation of NHL. The tumour was amenable to chemotherapy and radiotherapy. Lymphomas are malignant neoplasm arising from the lymphoid cells (Kumar et al 2005). They are broadly classified into two groups namely the Hodgkin Lymphoma, HL and NHL. Lymphomas are not rare in occurrence; they are considered as the eighth and ninth leading cause of death due to cancers in women and men respectively in the United State in 2017 (Longo et al 2012). NHL occurs 10 times more frequently than the HL and in general has a poorer prognosis as compared to the latter (Cancer treatment center of America, 2017).