Lymphadenoma of the spine : a case report

Abstract

P.S. aged 28, was referred in August 1949, to the Radiological Department of the Central Hospital for treatment by X-rays. Clinically this patient presented the picture of a fully-established Hodgkin's with painless discrete swelling of the glands in both cervical regions both axillae and groins, and moderate enlargement of the spleen. Patient looked ill, was pale and complained of lassitude. He gave a history of pain in the low back radiating forwards to the umbelicus (girdle pain), occasionally downwards to both loins with little or no intervals of freedom for the previous eighteen months, followed, three months ago, by progressive swelling of most of the accessible glands.