Mucocutaneous Paraneoplastic Syndrome Secondary to Classical Hodgkin’s Lymphoma

Paraneoplastic syndromes may be the only presenting manifestation of an otherwise occult malignancy. This case report highlights a patient presenting to the emergency department with an atypical, multi-system disease, ultimately leading to a diagnosis of mucocutaneous paraneoplastic syndrome seconda...

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Autores principales: Jurkovic, Jenna, Cirone, Michael
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: University of California Irvine, Department of Emergency Medicine publishing Western Journal of Emergency Medicine 2019
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Images in Emergency Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6497204/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31061977
http://dx.doi.org/10.5811/cpcem.2019.3.41759
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description Paraneoplastic syndromes may be the only presenting manifestation of an otherwise occult malignancy. This case report highlights a patient presenting to the emergency department with an atypical, multi-system disease, ultimately leading to a diagnosis of mucocutaneous paraneoplastic syndrome secondary to classical Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Emergency physicians should maintain a high clinical suspicion for paraneoplastic syndromes when patients present with multi-system manifestations.
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spelling pubmed-64972042019-05-06 Mucocutaneous Paraneoplastic Syndrome Secondary to Classical Hodgkin’s Lymphoma Jurkovic, Jenna Cirone, Michael Clin Pract Cases Emerg Med Images in Emergency Medicine Paraneoplastic syndromes may be the only presenting manifestation of an otherwise occult malignancy. This case report highlights a patient presenting to the emergency department with an atypical, multi-system disease, ultimately leading to a diagnosis of mucocutaneous paraneoplastic syndrome secondary to classical Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Emergency physicians should maintain a high clinical suspicion for paraneoplastic syndromes when patients present with multi-system manifestations. University of California Irvine, Department of Emergency Medicine publishing Western Journal of Emergency Medicine 2019-04-02 /pmc/articles/PMC6497204/ /pubmed/31061977 http://dx.doi.org/10.5811/cpcem.2019.3.41759 Text en Copyright: © 2019 Jurkovic et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Mucocutaneous Paraneoplastic Syndrome Secondary to Classical Hodgkin’s Lymphoma
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title_full Mucocutaneous Paraneoplastic Syndrome Secondary to Classical Hodgkin’s Lymphoma
title_fullStr Mucocutaneous Paraneoplastic Syndrome Secondary to Classical Hodgkin’s Lymphoma
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title_short Mucocutaneous Paraneoplastic Syndrome Secondary to Classical Hodgkin’s Lymphoma
title_sort mucocutaneous paraneoplastic syndrome secondary to classical hodgkin’s lymphoma
topic Images in Emergency Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6497204/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31061977
http://dx.doi.org/10.5811/cpcem.2019.3.41759
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