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Norma E. Tartas, MD; Jorge Korin, MD; Cristina S. Dengra, MD; Lucía M. Barazzutti, MD; Adriana Blasetti, MD; Julio C. Sánchez Avalos, MD

JAMA. 1985;254(3):406.

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DIFFUSE thymic hyperplasia following chemotherapy has rarely been reported in Hodgkin's disease, but its presence has been proposed as a favorable sign for the control of the illness.¹

We report herein a case of a 33-year-old woman with mixed cellular Hodgkin's disease who went into complete remission after chemotherapy and radiotherapy. While she was in complete remission, a mediastinal mass appeared that was proven histologically to be an enlarged thymus.

Report of a Case

A 33-year-old woman had been healthy until 1979, when she started to suffer from intermittent fever and night sweats. In August 1980, a physical examination detected left laterocervical, supraclavicular, and right axillar lymphadenopathies. The diagnosis of stage IIB mixed cellular Hodgkin's disease was made by a biopsy of the supraclavicular node and by staging procedures.

She was treated with chemotherapy (cyclophosphamide, vincristine, procarbazine, and prednisone) and radiotherapy (total nodal irradiation).² She went into complete . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
From the Department of Haematology, Sanatorio Güemes, Hospital Privado, Buenos Aires.

Footnotes
Presented as an abstract at the XX Congress of the International Society of Haematology, Buenos Aires, Sept 4, 1984.

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