Multiple cavitating pulmonary nodules secondary to Hodgkin's lymphoma

We report a 26-year old lady who presented with chronic cough and breathlessness associated with subtle TB symptoms for 1 year. Her CT thorax showed multiple cavitating pulmonary nodules with mediastinal and cervical lymphadenopathy. Cervical lymph node biopsy and CT-guided pulmonary biopsy at our...

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Main Authors:	Abdul Azih, Muhammad Naimuddin, Abd Rahman, Azlina, Hin, Howsoon, Chunn, Kuan Yeh
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Published:	International Islamic University Malaysia 2017
Subjects:	RC Internal medicine RC620 Specialties of Internal Medicine-Nutritional Diseases
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spelling	iium-629832018-03-23T01:40:14Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/62983/ Multiple cavitating pulmonary nodules secondary to Hodgkin's lymphoma Abdul Azih, Muhammad Naimuddin Abd Rahman, Azlina Hin, Howsoon Chunn, Kuan Yeh RC Internal medicine RC620 Specialties of Internal Medicine-Nutritional Diseases We report a 26-year old lady who presented with chronic cough and breathlessness associated with subtle TB symptoms for 1 year. Her CT thorax showed multiple cavitating pulmonary nodules with mediastinal and cervical lymphadenopathy. Cervical lymph node biopsy and CT-guided pulmonary biopsy at our centre confirmed the diagnosis of Hodgkin’s lymphoma with pulmonary infiltrations. She was successfully treated with ABVD regime but later developed life-threatening bleomycin-induced pulmonary fibrosis. Sadly, she succumbed to respiratory failure due to severe pneumonia with possibility of bleomycin-induced pulmonary fibrosis. Multiple cavitating pulmonary nodules secondary to lymphoma is rare and in TB endemic area, it may result in delayed diagnosis and treatment. International Islamic University Malaysia 2017-12 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/62983/1/62983_Multiple%20cavitating%20pulmonary%20nodules%20_article.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/62983/2/62983_Multiple%20cavitating%20pulmonary%20nodules%20_scopus.pdf Abdul Azih, Muhammad Naimuddin and Abd Rahman, Azlina and Hin, Howsoon and Chunn, Kuan Yeh (2017) Multiple cavitating pulmonary nodules secondary to Hodgkin's lymphoma. International Medical Journal Malaysia, 16 (2). pp. 129-131. ISSN 1823-4631 http://iiumedic.net/imjm/v1/download/volume_16_no_2/IMJM-Vol16-No2-129131.pdf
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spellingShingle	RC Internal medicine RC620 Specialties of Internal Medicine-Nutritional Diseases Abdul Azih, Muhammad Naimuddin Abd Rahman, Azlina Hin, Howsoon Chunn, Kuan Yeh Multiple cavitating pulmonary nodules secondary to Hodgkin's lymphoma
description	We report a 26-year old lady who presented with chronic cough and breathlessness associated with subtle TB symptoms for 1 year. Her CT thorax showed multiple cavitating pulmonary nodules with mediastinal and cervical lymphadenopathy. Cervical lymph node biopsy and CT-guided pulmonary biopsy at our centre confirmed the diagnosis of Hodgkin’s lymphoma with pulmonary infiltrations. She was successfully treated with ABVD regime but later developed life-threatening bleomycin-induced pulmonary fibrosis. Sadly, she succumbed to respiratory failure due to severe pneumonia with possibility of bleomycin-induced pulmonary fibrosis. Multiple cavitating pulmonary nodules secondary to lymphoma is rare and in TB endemic area, it may result in delayed diagnosis and treatment.
format	Article
author	Abdul Azih, Muhammad Naimuddin Abd Rahman, Azlina Hin, Howsoon Chunn, Kuan Yeh
author_facet	Abdul Azih, Muhammad Naimuddin Abd Rahman, Azlina Hin, Howsoon Chunn, Kuan Yeh
author_sort	Abdul Azih, Muhammad Naimuddin
title	Multiple cavitating pulmonary nodules secondary to Hodgkin's lymphoma
title_short	Multiple cavitating pulmonary nodules secondary to Hodgkin's lymphoma
title_full	Multiple cavitating pulmonary nodules secondary to Hodgkin's lymphoma
title_fullStr	Multiple cavitating pulmonary nodules secondary to Hodgkin's lymphoma
title_full_unstemmed	Multiple cavitating pulmonary nodules secondary to Hodgkin's lymphoma
title_sort	multiple cavitating pulmonary nodules secondary to hodgkin's lymphoma
publisher	International Islamic University Malaysia
publishDate	2017
url	http://irep.iium.edu.my/62983/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/62983/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/62983/1/62983_Multiple%20cavitating%20pulmonary%20nodules%20_article.pdf http://irep.iium.edu.my/62983/2/62983_Multiple%20cavitating%20pulmonary%20nodules%20_scopus.pdf
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Multiple cavitating pulmonary nodules secondary to Hodgkin's lymphoma

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