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SUBMITTER: Santos TSD
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5457460 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Apr - Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Revista brasileira de hematologia e hemoterapia 20161222 2
Splenic marginal zone lymphoma (SMZL) is a low-grade B-cell non-Hodgkin's lymphoma characterized by massive splenomegaly, moderate lymphocytosis with or without villous lymphocytes, rare involvement of peripheral lymph nodes and indolent clinical course. As a rare disease, with no randomized prospective trials, there is no standard of care for SMZL so far. Splenectomy has been done for many years as an attempt to control disease, but nowadays it has not been encouraged as first line because of n ...[more]