title: Untreated Hodgkin Lymphoma With Skin Infiltration and Satellite Skin Nodule in a 15-Year-Old Female Adolescent.
abstract: A 15-year-old female adolescent presented with progressive neck swelling of 1 year duration and received 6 months of antituberculosis therapy in a local hospital with no benefit. After excision biopsy, she came to our institution. Examination showed 3 fungating, ulcerating neck masses and a chest wall skin nodule. Pathology confirmed Hodgkin lymphoma, stage IV BXE. FDG PET/CT showed a large neck tumor, a satellite skin nodule with local skin infiltration of tumor. She received 6 cycles of ABVD (adriamycin, bleomycin, vinblastine, dacarbazine) chemotherapy and radiation therapy 2100 cGy. After chemotherapy, FDG PET/CT was negative. She is 2 years disease free.
authors.affiliation: From the Oncology Center, King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Center, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
authors.forename: Ahmad
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Alhuraiji
authors.forename: Saad
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Akhtar
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000971:Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D001761:Bleomycin / Q000627:therapeutic use; D003606:Dacarbazine / Q000627:therapeutic use; D018572:Disease-Free Survival; D004317:Doxorubicin / Q000627:therapeutic use; D005260:Female; D019788:Fluorodeoxyglucose F18; D006258:Head and Neck Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000556:secondary; D006689:Hodgkin Disease / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D064847:Multimodal Imaging; D049268:Positron-Emission Tomography; D019275:Radiopharmaceuticals; D012878:Skin Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000556:secondary; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014747:Vinblastine / Q000627:therapeutic use
chemical_list: D019275:Radiopharmaceuticals; D019788:Fluorodeoxyglucose F18; D001761:Bleomycin; D014747:Vinblastine; D003606:Dacarbazine; D004317:Doxorubicin