A Difficult Case of Hodgkin Lymphoma with Differential Diagnosis of Tuberculosis and Sarcoidosis

Overview

Journal Hematol Rep

Publisher MDPI

Date 2015 Sep 3

PMID 26330996

Citations 2

Authors

Nilufer Goknar

Erkan Cakir

Fatma Betul Cakir

Ozgur Kasapcopur

Gulcin Yegen

Ahmet Hakan Gedik

Faruk Oktem

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Abstract

We report here the case of a 14-year-old boy with history of fever, weight loss, and mediastinal lymphadenopathy. The clinical symptoms and laboratory findings mimicking tuberculosis and sarcoidosis complicated the diagnostic process. He was diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma after several X-rays, computed tomography, positron emission tomography-computed tomography, laboratory tests and three lymph node biopsy. Clinicians should be alerted on new lesions and symptoms in high risk patients and should repeat diagnostic tests and lymph node biopsies as indicated.

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