Mediastinal lymphoma: apropos of a patient

Authors

  • Gustavo A. Pérez Zavala Hospital Clínico Quirúrgico “Arnaldo Milián Castro”, Santa Clara, Villa Clara, Cuba
  • Jaime Monteagudo Ramírez Hospital Clínico Quirúrgico “Arnaldo Milián Castro”, Santa Clara, Villa Clara, Cuba
  • Joel Ramos Rodríguez Hospital Clínico Quirúrgico “Arnaldo Milián Castro”, Santa Clara, Villa Clara, Cuba

Keywords:

mediastinal lymphoma, surgical resection

Abstract

The case of a 25-year-old male patient, with an apparent history of good health, who began to have retrosternal pain with several months of evolution, fainting and occasional dyspnea, is reported. A chest X-ray, a simple lung computed tomography and a contrasted computed tomography were carried out. They showed the presence of a mediastinal tumor. In a right anterolateral thoracotomy, a thick polylobulated tumor was found, covering the superior and anterior mediastinum and encompassing the great vessels. Surgical resection was decided (cytoreductive surgery), since the tumor exerted a compressive effect on the right atrium and ventricle. The pathologic anatomy report indicates: Classical Hodgkin lymphoma, nodular sclerosis variant in the thymic area. The patient improved.

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.

Downloads

How to Cite

1.
Pérez Zavala GA, Monteagudo Ramírez J, Ramos Rodríguez J. Mediastinal lymphoma: apropos of a patient. Acta Méd Centro [Internet]. 2013 Apr. 4 [cited 2025 Jul. 13];7(2):70-3. Available from: https://revactamedicacentro.sld.cu/index.php/amc/article/view/77

Issue

Vol. 7 No. 2 (2013): April-June

Section

Case Reports

License

Authors who have publications with this journal agree to the following terms:

  1. Authors will retain their copyright and assign to the journal the right of first publication of their work, which will simultaneously be subject to a Creative Commons License / Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) that allows third parties to share the work as long as its author and first publication in this journal are indicated.
  2. Authors may adopt other non-exclusive license agreements for distribution of the published version of the work (e.g., depositing it in an institutional repository or publishing it in a monographic volume) as long as the initial publication in this journal is indicated.
  3. Authors are allowed and encouraged to disseminate their work through the Internet (e.g., in institutional telematic archives or on their web page) before and during the submission process, which can produce interesting exchanges and increase citations of the published work. (See The effect of open access).