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Pages 349-355 (May - June 1999)
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Vol. 5. Issue 3.
Pages 349-355 (May - June 1999)
CASO CLÍNICO/CLINICAL CASE
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Doença de Hodgkin
Hodgkin’s disease
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Marina Pereira(1),*, J. Meneses Santos(2),*, J.M. Costa Santos(3),*, Maria Conceição Crujo(4),**, M.A. Pereira Barbosa(5),*
(1) Assistente Hospitalor de Medicina Interna
(2) Consultor em Medicina Interna
(3) Consultor em Hematologia Clinica
(4) Assistente Hospitalar de Anatomia Patológica
(5) Prof. Agregado da Faculdade de Medicina de Lisboa
* Serviço de Medicina 3 do Hospital de Santa Maria (Director: Prof. A G da Palma-Carlos)
** Serviço de Anatomia Patológica do Hospital de Santa Maria (Director: Profa Maria José Forjaz de Lacerda)
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RESUMO

Os autores descrevem um caso de doença de Hodgkin, do subtipo esclerose nodular, numa mulher de 24 anos de idade. A forma de apresentação clínica, pouco habitual, é constituída por uma massa na regão esternal e parede anterior do hemitórax esquerdo, a qual adquire grande volume ao fim de 2 anos e meio de evolução natural da doença. Esta é tratada com quimioterapia (MOPP) e radioterapia adjuvante, sofrendo uma reeressão total das suas manifestações clínicas.

REV PORT PNEUMOL 1999; V (3): 349-355

Palavras-chave:
Doença de Hodgkin
Massa da parede torácica anterior
Forma de apresentação clinica
ABSTRACT

A case of a 24 years old woman with Hodgkin’s disease, nodular sclerosis subtype, is reported. The disease present with an anterior chest wall mass, an unusual clinical presentation form. The patient receive MOPP chemotherapy and adjuvant radio-therapy with complete resolution of her clinical manifestations.

REV PORT PNEUMOL 1999; V (3): 349-355

Key-words:
Hodgkin’s disease
Anterior chest wall mass
Clinical presentation form
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