Case Report
Year: 2020 | Month: November | Volume: 7 | Issue: 11 | Pages: 602-604
Hodgkin’s Lymphoma Presenting as Paraplegia: a Case Report
Uthaya Sankar M.K1, Sivaram A2, Louis Ferdin Zeno.J3, Suman Babu.I.S.S4
1Professor and Unit chief, 2,3Postgraduate residents, 4Assistant Professor, Department of General Medicine, Sri Manakula Vinayagar Medical College and Hospital, Puducherry 605107, India
Corresponding Author: Sivaram A
ABSTRACT
Hodgkin’s lymphoma is a malignancy of mature B lymphocytes which has Bimodal distribution of age at diagnosis and presents as palpable, non-tender lymphadenopathy. Neurological manifestations are rare complication of Hodgkin's disease (0.2%) and this is a case of Hodgkin’s lymphoma which presented primarily with paraplegia as a neurological deficit caused by spinal cord compression.
Keywords: Hodgkin's lymphoma, paraplegia, neurological deficit.
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