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Primary intestinal Hodgkin's disease complicating ileal Crohn's disease
M D Kelly1, M Stuart, M Tschuchnigg
1Department of Colon and Rectal Surgery, St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Surgery
|July 1, 1997
Abstract:
An unusual primary intestinal lymphoma that occurred as a complication of ileal Crohn's disease is presented. Immunohistochemistry confirmed the light microscopic diagnosis of Hodgkin's disease (nodular sclerosing), and characterized a distinct mucosal nodule as a large-cell anaplastic non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. This unusual lymphoma developed while the patient was being treated with immunosuppressant medication. The present report is a reminder to clinicians of the possibility of occult lymphoma in ileal Crohn's disease.