Radiation therapy in lymphomatoid granulomatosis.

Two female patients with lymphomatoid granulomatosis have received radiation therapy for local, progressive, symptomatic lesions. One patient was a 56-year-old woman with concomitant brain and pulmonary lesions which progressed on cyclophosphamide and prednisone therapy. The second patient was a 62-year-old woman with a supraorbital mass which appeared and progressed on prednisone therapy. Both patients exhibited rapid response to radiation therapy, in terms of relief of symptoms and objective evidence of subsidence of local disease. A discussion of the nature of lymphomatoid granulomatosis and its treatment is presented with a review of the literature. One hundred sixty-five cases have now been described including the two in this study, and in only one previous case was radiation therapy utilized to treat local disease, prior to the two cases described herein.