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.

Details

Title
A difficult case of Hodgkin Lymphoma with differential diagnosis of tuberculosis and sarcoidosis
Author
Göknar, Nilüfer; Çakır, Erkan; Çakır, Fatma Betül; Kasapcopur, Ozgur; Yegen, Gulcin; Gedik, Ahmet Hakan; Oktem, Faruk
Section
Case Reports
Publication year
2015
Publication date
Jun 2015
Publisher
MDPI AG
ISSN
20388322
e-ISSN
20388330
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
Italian; English
ProQuest document ID
2438803815
Copyright
© 2015. This work is published under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ (the “License”). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.