A Difficult Case of Hodgkin Lymphoma with Differential Diagnosis of Tuberculosis and Sarcoidosis

We report here the case of a 14-year-old boy with history of fever, weight loss, and mediastinal lymphadenopathy. The clinical symptoms and laboratory findings mimicking tuberculosis and sarcoidosis complicated the diagnostic process. He was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma after several X-rays, co...

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Autores principales: Göknar, Nilüfer, Çakır, Erkan, Çakır, Fatma Betül, Kasapcopur, Ozgur, Yegen, Gulcin, Gedik, Ahmet Hakan, Oktem, Faruk
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: PAGEPress Publications, Pavia, Italy 2015
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4508547/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26330996
http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/hr.2015.5644
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Sumario:We report here the case of a 14-year-old boy with history of fever, weight loss, and mediastinal lymphadenopathy. The clinical symptoms and laboratory findings mimicking tuberculosis and sarcoidosis complicated the diagnostic process. He was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma after several X-rays, computed tomography, positron emission tomography-computed tomography, laboratory tests and three lymph node biopsy. Clinicians should be alerted on new lesions and symptoms in high risk patients and should repeat diagnostic tests and lymph node biopsies as indicated.

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