Pulmonary involvement by Hodgkin's disease mimicking pneumonia.
A 24-year-old man who was initially thought to have nocardiosis of his mediastinal lymph node which progressed to involve his right lung, had to undergo a right pneumonectomy when he failed to respond to treatment with sulphadiazine. Histology of the right lung specimen and a subsequent axillary lymph node biopsy revealed that he actually had lymphocyte-depleted Hodgkin's disease.
Liam
C K
CK
Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur.
Wong
K T
KT
Lim
Y C
YC
D000328:Adult; D006689:Hodgkin Disease / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D008168:Lung / Q000473:pathology; D008297:Male; D011014:Pneumonia / Q000209:etiology*