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Query: UMLS:C0019829 (Hodgkin's disease)
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Malignant non-Hodgkins lymphomas have a secondary cardiac localisation in 20% of cases. However, a cardiac primary site is rare (44 cases described up to now). A positive diagnosis is rarely made before death. There is great interest in echocardiography, a non-invasive method, to identify these tumours early. The prognosis remains nevertheless gloomy. We report the case of a child aged 8 years, admitted with a scenario of low output right cardiac insufficiency. Chest radiography identified cardiomegaly with a prominent right border, and the electrocardiograph showed right auricular hypertrophy. A tumour mass infiltrating the right atrium, the right ventricle and the lateral face of the left ventricle was discovered on trans-thoracic echocardiography. Investigation for tumour spread was negative. The patient died before operation in a state of extreme low output. The histology favoured a highly malignant non-Hodgkins lymphoma type B.
Arch Mal Coeur Vaiss 2002 Jan
PMID:[Primary cardiac lymphoma. Report of a case]. 1190 91

Pulmonary Langerhans histiocytosis (PLH) is a rare disease due to the accumulation of Langerhans cells at the level of the bronchioles. These dendritic immunocytes form granulomata and destroy the wall of the airway. We report a case of PLH developing at the same time as Hodgkin's lymphoma in a young woman who smoked tobacco and cannabis. We observed a complete remission of the PLH lesions parallel to the remission of the Hodgkin's lymphoma after chemotherapy, in the absence of any change in the consumption of tobacco and cannabis. This observation leads us to discuss the potential relationships between PLH on one hand, and smoking, the lymphoma and its treatment on the other.
Rev Mal Respir 2011 Sep
PMID:[Pulmonary Langerhans histiocytosis and Hodgkin's lymphoma]. 2194 41


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