AMYLOID NEPHROSIS SECONDARY TO HODGKIN'S DISEASE

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SECONDARY amyloidosis, as a complication of Hodgkin's disease, has been described as being unusual to rare in occurrence.* In a survey of the literature from 1832 to 1949, Wallace and co-workers,3reviewed approximately 40 cases in which amyloidosis developed and described a case of their own. Since 1949, additional cases have been described.† We should like to report a case in which the clinical picture was that of a nephrotic syndrome with uremia, whose etiology could not be determined but which proved to be amyloidosis, secondary to clinically unrecognized Hodgkin's disease. REPORT OF CASE A 37-year-old white man entered the hospital with a history of being in good health until four months previously. At this time he noted progressive anorexia and asthenia. One month prior to admission, he developed edema of the lower extremities and intermittent edema of the eyelids. Two weeks later he noted the onset of 10

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