Hodgkin's disease with pulmonary cavitation.

Pulmonary involvement with Hodgkin's disease has been estimated to occur in 40% of most large series (Ellman and Bowdler, 1960; Sternberg, Sidransky and Ochsner, 1959). Primary pulmonary Hodgkin's disease is most uncommon, and in Kern's review of the literature only 18 cases were noted to fulfill the criteria that were established by the authors (Kern, Crepeau and Jones, 1961). Since that time three additional case reports of Hodgkin's disease with cavitary pulmonary lesions have been published, one of which was not a primary presentation (Steel, 1964; Dhingra and Flance, 1970; Korbitz, 1970). We report on a patient presenting with multiple pulmonary cavities as the primary site of involvement with Hodgkin's disease.