August 2024 Image of the Month: Lymphomatoid Granulomatosis

Autor: Steven Herber MD, Gabriel Swenson MD, Clinton Jokerst MD
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2024
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Zdroj: Southwest Journal of Pulmonary and Critical Care, Vol 29, Iss 2, Pp 19-22 (2024)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2160-6773
DOI: 10.13175/swjpccs039-24
Popis: No abstract available. Article truncated after 50 words. A 72-year-old man with a history of hypertension and diabetes and a remote smoking history (10 pack-years) presented to our institution with approximately 1 year of poor appetite, night sweats, and progressive weakness as well as ~ 70 lb. weight loss over the past 6 months. He had also developed multiple intramuscular tumors within his extremities, with rapid growth of a right forearm tumor requiring fasciotomy and debridement. He denied recent foreign travel and his family history was significant for non-Hodgkin lymphoma in his father. Extensive prior clinical and laboratory investigation yielded a negative rheumatological workup, hypercalcemia and an elevated CRP, but was otherwise unremarkable. Outside imaging studies had shown abdominal adenopathy with numerous intramuscular masses as well as several visceral masses involving the liver, pancreas, spleen and kidneys. Histopathology from several sources including his right forearm debridement surgical specimen and biopsy specimens from lesions in his lung, liver, and …
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