Hodgkin's disease variant of Richter's transformation: a case report.
Hodgkin's disease rarely develops in patients with B-chronic lymphocytic leukemia. Patients developing Hodgkin's disease after the diagnosis of chronic lymphocytic leukemia have been called the "Hodgkin's disease variant of Richter's transformation." We present a 62-yr-old man with a 17-mo history of chronic lymphocytic leukemia, who clinically and hematologically on remission was admitted to our clinic because of rapidly developing right cervical lymphadenopathy. He was diagnosed with lymph node biopsy as a mixed-cellularity Hodgkin's disease.
Isikdogan
Abdurrahman
A
Dicle University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Hematology-Oncology, Diyarbakir, Turkey. drisikdogan@hotmail.com
Ayyildiz
Orhan
O
Büyükbayram
Hüseyin
H
Müftüoğlu
Ekrem
E
D017809:Fatal Outcome; D006689:Hodgkin Disease / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D015451:Leukemia, Lymphocytic, Chronic, B-Cell / Q000150:complications*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged