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Sister Joseph's nodule in non-Hodgkin's lymphoma
1University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.
Clinical Oncology (Royal College of Radiologists (Great Britain))
|December 16, 1998
Abstract:
Sister Joseph's nodule is traditionally regarded as a sign of poor prognosis in untreatable malignancy. We describe a patient with a metastatic umbilical nodule in non-Hodgkin's lymphoma who had a good outcome. The possible mechanisms of tumour spread to the umbilicus and reasons for its rarity in lymphoma are discussed. The need for histological confirmation to exclude treatable disease is emphasized.