Children with limited disease have an excellent prognosis when treated with chemotherapy. Radiation therapy can serve an ancillary role, i.e., as emergency treatment for involvement of the nervous system, for testicular involvement, or when there is a severe mass effect, as in superior vena caval compression or airway obstruction. Even in these circumstances, the use of radiation therapy is being questioned. Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in childhood. Azizkhan RG, Dudgeon DL, Buck JR, et al.
Pulmonary function is compromised in children with mediastinal lymphoma.
Prospective evaluation by computed tomography and pulmonary function tests of children with mediastinal masses. Mediastinal mass and tracheal obstruction during general anesthesia. Results of treatment of childhood localized non-Hodgkin's lymphoma with combination chemotherapy with or without radiotherapy. PDQ statements exist for a number of topics. Please consult the PDQ Index .