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Query: UMLS:C0019829 (Hodgkin's disease)
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We treated two patients with rare variants of Hodgkin's disease of the thymus. One was a 17-year-old girl with a thymoma-like shadow on the chest X-rays, an increased erythrocyte sedimentation rate and an elevated eosinophil count. Pathologically, a mixed cellularity variant of thymus Hodgkin's disease was evident. The other patient was 22-year-old girl with evidence of mediastinal tumor on the chest X-rays. Pathological examination revealed Hodgkin's disease of the lymphocyte predominance variety. She also had Von der Haeve syndrome. In both cases, Hodgkin's disease was suspected by scintiscanning, using three kinds of radioisotope, 201Thallium-chloride, 67Garium-citrate and 75Selenomethionine. Radical excision of the lesion plus preoperative and postoperative irradiations were carried out. Both are well 6 and 5 years after the treatment, respectively. We propose a new diagnostic procedure and a method of treatment for such patients.
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PMID:Rare variants of Hodgkin's disease of the thymus: report of two cases and proposal for effective clinical management. 379 31

We describe a girl with Hodgkin's disease limited to the abdomen. She had severe hypochromic, microcytic anemia with increased iron deposition in the liver. Abdominal Hodgkin's disease should be considered in the differential diagnosis of a child with hypochromic anemia, systemic symptoms, and lack of peripheral adenopathy.
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PMID:Abdominal Hodgkin's disease in a child. 383 59

A remarkable augmentation of Hb F and a reduction of Hb A2 were observed in a Sicilian woman during and after a course of treatment for Hodgkin's disease. An inverse correlation between the proportion of Hb F and Hb A2 was found over an 8-year period, as well as in populations of red blood cells fractionated by density gradient. She exhibited two genetic defects, the Swiss type of heterocellular hereditary persistence of fetal hemoglobin and a beta-thalassemia trait, which were confirmed by the study of the hemoglobin synthesis and by a family study. The lasting reactivation of Hb F synthesis is attributable to the interaction of several acquired and inherited factors.
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PMID:Lasting Hb F reactivation and Hb A2 reduction induced by the treatment of Hodgkin's disease in a woman heterozygous for beta-thalassemia and the Swiss type of the heterocellular hereditary persistence of Hb F. 618 May 86

Vascular symptoms after vinca-alcaloids and bleomycin are known. We report a 50-year-old woman who was cigarette smoker and who had had the syndrome of Raynaud's phenomenon for two years before she developed non-Hodgkin lymphoma. She was treated with chemotherapy including vincristine and bleomycin. Immediately after the second course of chemotherapy she had severe vertigo, nystagmus, dysarthria and dysphagia. The fingers remained cyanotic and became extremely painful despite stellatum blockade, intra-arterial vasodilators and thoracic sympathectomy. Two digits of the left hand were partially amputated because of gangrenous areas on the fingertips. The cerebral symptoms disappeared.
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PMID:Raynaud's phenomenon progressing to gangrene after vincristine and bleomycin therapy. 620 57

A child diagnosed with Stage IVB Hodgkin disease at nine and one-half years of age subsequently developed osteosarcoma and acute myelogenous leukemia ten years after her initial diagnosis. She received multiple courses of radiotherapy and several single chemotherapeutic agents for her Hodgkin disease. Theraphy-induced multiple malignancies and intrinsic predisposition to carcinogenesis in this case is discussed.
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PMID:Osteosarcoma and acute myeloblastic leukemia after therapy for childhood Hodgkin disease - a case report. 693 64

Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML) occurred in two patients after kidney transplantation. Two years after such a transplantation associated with immunosuppressive chemotherapy, a 54-year-old male developed polyneuropathy, diffuse alterations of the central nervous system and he died with the suspicion of hypertensive encephalopathy due to progressive renal failure. A 45-year-old female had kidney transplantation first complicated by Listeria monocytogenes meningoencephalitis. She was cured from this disease and had a satisfactory social rehabilitation for two years. Afterwards, she suffered from various neurological ailments, including epilepsy, that were attributed to combined renal failure and developing hydrocephalus. One year after the onset of these neurological symptoms, the grafted kidney was removed and chemotherapy was discontinued but she died a few weeks later. Both patients had typical PML. By electron microscopy, performed on formalin fixed brain tissue, intranuclear round particles (40-50 nm) could be recognized in the first case only. These two cases are confronted with the six published observations of PML following organ transplantation. The frequency of PML has been estimated at 1 for 5000 kidney transplantation, 1 for 2000 chronic lymphoid leukemia and 1 for 10,000 Hodgkin's disease.
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PMID:[Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy after renal transplantation. Report of two cases]. 702 27

A patient with a purulent pericarditis due to Candida tropicalis is described. A 77-year-old woman undergoing chemotherapy for Hodgkin's disease was admitted to the hospital with a history of several febrile episodes. She was thought to be septic and was begun on broad-spectrum antibiotics, despite treatment, however, the patient expired. Among the multiple premortem blood, urine, and cerebrospinal fluid cultures, one blood culture yielded C. tropicalis 2 days postmortem. Autopsy revealed purulent pericarditis accompanied by endocarditis and myocarditis due to culture-proven C. tropicalis. This is the first reported case of purulent pericarditis complicating systemic infection with this organism and is indicative of the fulminant course of fungal pericarditis.
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PMID:Purulent pericarditis complicating systemic infection with Candida tropicalis. 707 56

This is the first description of human coenurus infection in Canada. The patient, a 38-year-old Caucasian woman, suffered severe and incapacitating symptoms, including recurrent rash, pyrexia, night sweats and lymphadenopathy, that were suspicious of a lymphoma, possibly Hodgkin's disease. She received several trials of chemotherapy over a 3-year period which controlled her symptoms, but only during the treatment periods. The appearance of a hemorrhagic mass in the left breast led to the surgical removal of bladder-like cysts. The patient's symptoms have not recurred since the cysts were exercised. These have been identified as larvae of Taenia serialis.
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PMID:A human coenurus infection in Canada. 719 61

A 34-year-old patient developed metastic endometrial carcinoma after Hodgkin disease in childhood. She had ovarian failure after abdominal irradiation and chemotherapy for Hodgkin disease, and received exogenous estrogens, a treatment implicated in the development of endometrial cancer in menopausal women. Young women on replacement estrogens for ovarian failure after cancer therapy may also have increased risk of endometrial carcinoma and should be examined periodically.
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PMID:Endometrial carcinoma after Hodgkin disease in childhood. 742 34

A 36 year-old non-smoker woman was admitted because of a rapidly growing mass at the left hilum. Fiberoptic bronchoscopy did not show any abnormality. A percutaneous Rotex needle biopsy and a cutting needle biopsy showed atypical cells suggestive of an anaplastic tumor, possibly a sarcoma. A thoracotomy biopsy demonstrated nodal and pulmonary involvement by Hodgkin lymphoma (nodular-sclerosis form) and pulmonary TBC (granulomas with caseum and acid fast bacilli (AFB)). The patient started treatment with isoniazid, rifampin and pirazynamide and then she received chemotherapy and radiotherapy. One year later her chest and abdominal CT were normal. Twelve months after that she developed severe dyspnea with a chest x-ray film with interstitial infiltrates and a mass at the left-hilum. She worsened quickly and died. At autopsy no evidence of active TBC was found and extensive involvement by lymphoma was demonstrated. The diagnosis in this patient was not obtained by clinical-radiological signs or by non-invasive tests but only by surgical biopsy. The association between neoplasm and TBC is well known, but now is very rare. In Argentina TBC prevalence in lymphomas is 1.2% (higher than control population). TBC diagnosis can occasionally be difficult. In most of undiagnosed patients TBC is the main contributor to death. In this patient the mediastinopulmonary mass was adequately diagnosed only after an open biopsy which showed it to be caused by two coexistent diseases, previously unsuspected and both amenable of effective treatment. This case shows the heterogeneity of TBC presentation and stresses the need to consider it in each non-defined mediastino-pulmonary lesion in countries where TBC is highly prevalent.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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PMID:[Hodgkin's disease of mediastino-pulmonary onset associated with tuberculosis of unusual presentation]. 765 2


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