Case 46051
- 4 February 1960
- journal article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 262 (5) , 245-249
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm196002042620510
Abstract
Presentation of Case* First admission. A thirty-six-year-old housewife entered the hospital because of a cough.Nineteen years previously a biopsy of an enlarged cervical lymph node showed chronic inflammation. Enlarged left axillary lymph nodes were also observed, and x-ray films of the chest demonstrated a mass in the anterior portion of the mediastinum. With x-ray therapy the enlarged lymph nodes diminished in size, and the mediastinal mass receded. Eight months later a biopsy of another cervical lymph node showed Hodgkin's disease. Multiple courses of x-ray therapy were given because of enlarged cervical, axillary, inguinal and abdominal lymph nodes. The . . .Keywords
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