Hodgkin lymphoma of skin masquerading as inflammatory breast carcinoma - A rare case report

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Case Report

Author Details : Sakthidasan Chinnathambi P*, Bharath Kumar

Volume : 9, Issue : 3, Year : 2022

Article Page : 288-291

https://doi.org/10.18231/j.ijpo.2022.069

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Abstract

Hodgkin’s Lymphoma is a B- Cell neoplasm occurring in lymph nodes and extra-nodal sites. Among the latter, skin involvement is a rare phenomenon with a very low incidence rate. Cutaneous involvement of Hodgkin’s Lymphoma may have varied clinical presentations from erythematous papules to ulcers. However, a thorough search in histology shows the classic RS cells which are diagnostic of Hodgkin’s lymphoma, but this needs a high degree of suspicion. Presentation of Hodgkin Lymphoma, in an elderly female patient of 60 years of age bearing erythematous skin changes over breast which made a clinical suspicion of inflammatory breast carcinoma, is presented here.
 

Keywords: Hodgkin lymphoma, Breast, Carcinoma, Skin.

How to cite : Sakthidasan Chinnathambi P, Kumar B, Hodgkin lymphoma of skin masquerading as inflammatory breast carcinoma - A rare case report. Indian J Pathol Oncol 2022;9(3):288-291

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