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Untreated Hodgkin Lymphoma With Skin Infiltration and Satellite Skin Nodule in a 15-Year-Old Female Adolescent
- Source :
- Clinical Nuclear Medicine. 40:602-605
- Publication Year :
- 2015
- Publisher :
- Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health), 2015.
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Abstract
- A 15-year-old female adolescent presented with progressive neck swelling of 1 year duration and received 6 months of antituberculosis therapy in a local hospital with no benefit. After excision biopsy, she came to our institution. Examination showed 3 fungating, ulcerating neck masses and a chest wall skin nodule. Pathology confirmed Hodgkin lymphoma, stage IV BXE. FDG PET/CT showed a large neck tumor, a satellite skin nodule with local skin infiltration of tumor. She received 6 cycles of ABVD (adriamycin, bleomycin, vinblastine, dacarbazine) chemotherapy and radiation therapy 2100 cGy. After chemotherapy, FDG PET/CT was negative. She is 2 years disease free.
- Subjects :
- medicine.medical_specialty
Skin Neoplasms
Adolescent
medicine.medical_treatment
Dacarbazine
Female adolescent
Vinblastine
Bleomycin
Multimodal Imaging
Disease-Free Survival
chemistry.chemical_compound
Fluorodeoxyglucose F18
Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols
medicine
Humans
Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and imaging
Chemotherapy
business.industry
General Medicine
Skin Nodule
Hodgkin Disease
Surgery
Radiation therapy
ABVD
chemistry
Doxorubicin
Head and Neck Neoplasms
Positron-Emission Tomography
Female
Radiology
Radiopharmaceuticals
Tomography, X-Ray Computed
business
medicine.drug
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 03639762
- Volume :
- 40
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Clinical Nuclear Medicine
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....a6554540a00a68136cf0733dda7cffc9
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1097/rlu.0000000000000770