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Volume 358:1838-1848 April 24, 2008 Number 17
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Case 13-2008 — A 46-Year-Old Man with Rheumatoid Arthritis and Lymphadenopathy
Nikhil C. Munshi, M.D., Subba Digumarthy, M.D., and Aliyah Rahemtullah, M.D.

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Viviany Taqueti (Harvard Medical School): A 46-year-old man was seen in the hematology–oncology clinic of a cancer center affiliated with this hospital because of anorexia and generalized lymphadenopathy.

The patient had a history of rheumatoid arthritis but had been otherwise well until 1 month earlier, when diffuse lymphadenopathy gradually developed in his neck, axillae, and groin, associated with sore throat and loss of appetite but not with weight loss. Approximately 1 week before this evaluation, fatigue, nausea, bloating, loose stools, and a cough productive of white sputum developed. On examination by his primary care physician 5 days before this evaluation, . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Differential Diagnosis

Indolent Lymphomas

Aggressive Lymphomas

Infections

Castleman's Disease

Monoclonal Gammopathy

Gamma Heavy-Chain Disease

Clinical Diagnosis

Dr. Nikhil C. Munshi's Diagnosis

Pathological Discussion

Anatomical Diagnosis


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From the Boston Veterans Affairs Healthcare System and the Jerome Lipper Center for Multiple Myeloma, Dana–Farber Cancer Institute (N.C.M.); the Departments of Radiology (S.D.) and Pathology (A.R.), Massachusetts General Hospital; and the Departments of Medicine (N.C.M.), Radiology (S.D.), and Pathology (A.R.), Harvard Medical School — all in Boston.



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