Hodgkin's disease in a patient with Von Hippel-Lindau disease. A case report.
Von Hippel-Lindau (VHL) disease is an autosomal dominant inherited disorder with a predisposition to develop a wide variety of lesions: retinal, cerebellar, spinal and medullar hemangioblastomas, renal cell carcinomas, phaeochromocytomas, and renal, pancreatic and epididymal cysts are the most frequent manifestations of the disease. The prevalence of VHL disease has been estimated to be 1 per 36,000 persons. We report the case of a 68-year-old woman with Von Hipple-Lindau disease who developed high fever with pulmonary and hepatic lesions proven to be Hodgkin's disease on biopsy. To our knowledge, this is the first report of Hodgkin's disease in a patient with Von Hippel-Lindau.
D'hondt
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Universitaire ziekenhuizen Leuven.
Thomas
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Van Oosterom
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Dewolf-Peeters
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D000368:Aged; D000971:Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols / Q000627:therapeutic use; D001706:Biopsy; D005260:Female; D006689:Hodgkin Disease / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D008113:Liver Neoplasms / Q000150:complications*; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000150:complications*; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D006623:von Hippel-Lindau Disease / Q000150:complications* / Q000235:genetics