Hodgkin's disease: Less Common Intrathoracic Manifestations

Crohn's disease: less common radiographic manifestations.

Unusual manifestations of common diseases are still relatively common events. Crohn's disease may involve the entire gastrointestinal tract from the pharynx to the anus. Although the classic findings of ileocolic disease are well known, the changes described above are less commonly encountered. They may be subject to misdiagnosis unless the protean manifestations of Crohn's disease are kept in ...

Intrathoracic manifestations of malignant lymphomatous disease.

Intrathoracic Manifestations of IgG4-Related Disease

Intrathoracic involvement with IgG4-related disease (IgG4-RD) is frequently overlooked in IgG4-related disease patients. In this article we review the intrathoracic findings of IgG4-RD which are variable and protean. IgG4-related disease has been reported to affect the lung parenchyma, pleura, mediastinal/hilar lymph nodes, vasculature, and pericardium within the thorax. Mediastinal and hilar l...

On Some of the Less Common Manifestations of Filariasis

filarial diseases, and examination of the patient's blood resulted in the discovery of embryo filaripe. Under suitable treatment the symptoms of inflammation subsided in a few days, and the swelling of the testicle disappeared, but the structures of the cord remained enlarged, and presented characters very like those seen in cases of varicocele, but differing from the latter in certain points t...

Intrathoracic manifestations in non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.

A total of 16 of 86 patients (19%) with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma were found to have intrathoracic disease in this retrospective study. Paratracheal, mediastinal, and hilar lymphadenopathy was the commonest manifestation followed by pulmonary lesions and pleural effusion. The lymphoma was at an advanced clinical stage in all the patients with intrathoracic disease. About one-third of the intrathor...