Lethal midline lymphoma causing acute dacryocystitis.
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Lethal midline lymphoma causing acute dacryocystitis.
'Midline lethal granuloma' or 'nonhealing midline granuloma' is a rare and dramatic condition causing progressive ulceration and destruction of the nasopharynx, nose, and face and the demise of the patient from a disfiguring and most unpleasant illness. The differential diagnosis covers a wide spectrum of inflammatory and neoplastic diseases, but there are a group of patients where no precise d...
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عنوان ژورنال: British Journal of Ophthalmology
سال: 1981
ISSN: 0007-1161
DOI: 10.1136/bjo.65.7.503