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Deborah L. Day, MD; Salma H. Mikhail, MD

JAMA. 1985;253(11):1593-1595.

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History

A 14-year-old Laotian girl presented with a history of persistent and increasing pain in the proximal segment of the left leg after being hit with a hockey stick one month before. Over the past several months, she had a 6.8- to 9.0-kg (15- to 20-lb) weight loss and had recently experienced lethargy and fever with temperature to 38.8 °C (102 °F).

The patient had spent the first 12 years of life in Laos. While she was in Laos just prior to her arrival in the United States, a "lump" in the right side of her neck had been resected. Information covering the pathological interpretation of the sections obtained from the resected mass in the neck is withheld.

Physical examination showed a cachectic Laotian girl with a tender, swollen left leg in its proximal segment. Cervical adenopathy and a 1.5x1.5-cm right supraclavicular mass were present.

A roentgenogram of the left . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
From the Department of Radiology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.

Footnotes
Reprint requests to Department of Radiology, University of Minnesota, Box 292, Mayo Memorial Building, Minneapolis, MN 55455 (Dr Day).

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