Pulmonary involvement by Hodgkin's disease mimicking pneumonia.
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A 24-year-old man who was initially thought to have nocardiosis of his mediastinal lymph node which progressed to involve his right lung, had to undergo a right pneumonectomy when he failed to respond to treatment with sulphadiazine. Histology of the right lung specimen and a subsequent axillary lymph node biopsy revealed that he actually had lymphocyte-depleted Hodgkin's disease.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- The Medical journal of Malaysia
دوره 52 1 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1997