“…After these chemotherapy regimens, radiotherapy was selected, because repeated opportunistic infections, such as cytomegalovirus infection, had impaired the patient's general condition, and additional chemotherapy was not judged to be tolerable. NHL of the jaw is usually treated with a combination of chemotherapy and radiotherapy, 22,23 although most reported cases were not associated with HIV, and no information on the efficacy of radiotherapy for HIVassociated BL of the jaw is available. The present patient showed complete remission of HIV-associated BL arising in the mandible, and additional study would be desirable to reveal effective chemotherapy followed by radiotherapy for HIV-associated BL at the localized stage.…”