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Reminder of important clinical lesson
Superior vena cava syndrome caused by Hodgkin’s lymphoma in an adolescent girl
  1. Imran Rizvi1,
  2. Shamsuz Zaman2,
  3. Noorin Zaidi2,
  4. Syed Mohammad Kamil Ashraf1,
  5. Arun Kumar1,
  6. Ankush Gupta3,
  7. Mehtab Ahmad4
  1. 1General Medicine Department, J N Medical College, Aligarh, UP, India
  2. 2Pathology Department, J N Medical College, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, UP, India
  3. 3General Medicine Department, Military Hospital, Jodhpur, Jodhpur, India
  4. 4Radiodiagnosis Department, J N Medical College, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, UP, India
  1. Correspondence to Dr Imran Rizvi, imranrizvi09{at}gmail.com

Summary

A 14-year-old female patient presented to us with complaints of shortness of breath, swelling over upper body and dysphagia, prominent veins were visible on upper body. CT scan of chest revealed a large mediastinal mass compressing surrounding structures. Histopathology and immunohistochemistry confirmed it to be Hodgkin’s lymphoma. The patient was given a course of chemotherapy (doxorubicin, bleomycin, vinblastine and dacarabazine) and local radiotherapy. Presently she is doing well.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bcr.01.2012.5487

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