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Diffuse Large B-cell Lymphoma with Renal Involvement Presenting with Multiple Cranial Nerve Palsy in a Frail Older Adult: a Case Report

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Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) is the most common form of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma (NHL). Usually, it presents as expanding mass in the neck or abdomen but can present in unusual ways as an extranodal disease, with multiorgan involvement. Appropriate suspicion and workup can lead to early diagnosis to initiate early treatment, but it comes with multiple challenges, in case of older frail population. Herewith, we are reporting our patient, a 63-year-old frail older woman presented as multiple cranial nerve palsy and renal impairment at presentation.

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  1. Department of Geriatric Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Ansari Nagar, New Delhi, 110 029, India

    Manicka Saravanan Subramanian, Abhijith Rajaram Rao, Urza Bhattarai & Aparajit Ballav Dey

  2. Department of Radiodiagnosis, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Ansari Nagar, New Delhi, 110 029, India

    Naren Hemachandran

  3. Department of Pathology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Ansari Nagar, New Delhi, 110 029, India

    Mohamad Sulaiman

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Manuscript writing and interpretation of the data: Manicka Saravanan Subramanian and Abhijith Rajaram Rao. Acquisition and interpretation of the data: Urza Bhattarai, Naren Hemachandran, and Mohamad Sulaiman. Critical revision of the manuscript for intellectual content: Aparajit Ballav Dey.

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Subramanian, M.S., Rao, A.R., Bhattarai, U. et al. Diffuse Large B-cell Lymphoma with Renal Involvement Presenting with Multiple Cranial Nerve Palsy in a Frail Older Adult: a Case Report. SN Compr. Clin. Med. 3, 1951–1954 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42399-021-00956-7

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