Testicular Mass in an Elderly Patient: a Rare Presentation of Hodgkin's Lymphoma

Overview

Journal BMJ Case Rep

Specialty General Medicine

Date 2012 Jun 21

PMID 22714614

Citations 2

Authors

Noel Gatt

Sharon Falzon

James DeGaetano

Joseph M Deguara

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Abstract

A testicular mass in an elderly man has a high probability of being a lymphoma. However, when the pathologist is faced with a neoplastic lymphoid infiltrate in the testes, one rarely considers Hodgkin's lymphoma as a possibility, as a vast majority turn out to be diffuse large B cell lymphomas. The authors discuss the second case of Hodgkin's lymphoma, nodular sclerosis subtype, presenting as a painless enlarged testicle and associated symptoms similar to irreducible hernia in a 73-year-old gentleman. The patient was later found to have subdiaphragmatic lymph node disease. Hodgkin's lymphoma should therefore be given due consideration in the differential diagnosis of a testicular tumour with a predominantly lymphoid infiltrate.

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