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Case of the Week 579


What is the most likely diagnosis?

  • 32 year-old with fever and night sweats



Frontal and Lateral Chest Radiographs

  1. Achalasia
  2. Hodgkin Disease
  3. Metastatic Choriocarcinoma
  4. Histoplasmosis
  5. Sarcoid

Additional Image - Axial contrast-enhanced CT of the chest

 

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Axial Contrast-enhanced CT of the Chest


Answer:

 

2. Hodgkin Disease

 

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Hodgkin Disease

General Considerations

  • Half of patients with Hodgkin have mediastinal lymph node enlargement visible on chest x-ray.
  • About 5-10% of patients may have mediastinal adenopathy without any other nodes involved
  • Clinically, over 90% of patients with Hodgkin have enlarged nodes, the disease behaving most benignly when restricted to the neck
  • Most have nodular sclerosing type

 

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