Intracerebral presentation of Hodgkin disease mimicking meningioma in a young woman: case presentation with literature review.
Intracranial involvement of the Hodgkin disease (HD) is a rare entity. Until now, 9 cases of initial presentation of the HD as a brain tumor with appropriate morphologic and histochemical confirmation were reported. Of the 9 patients, 6 had isolated primary intracranial HD and 3 patients after further investigation were found to have extracranial involvement. Seven patients had nodular sclerosing histology, 1 had mixed cellularity, and in 1 case histology was not reported. We describe a patient with systemic nodular sclerosing HD, who initially presented with a brain mass mimicking meningioma and was found to have disseminated lymphadenopathy and bone involvement.
Apollonsky
Nataly
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Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology and Stem Cell Transplantation, Department of Pediatrics, Schneider Children's Hospital, New Hyde Park, NY, USA.
Edelman
Morris
M
Johnson
Alan
A
Bhuiya
Tawfiqul
T
Karayalcin
Gungor
G
D000328:Adult; D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006689:Hodgkin Disease / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D008577:Meningeal Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology; D008579:Meningioma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology*; D011859:Radiography