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Presentation of Case

A 65-year-old man was admitted to the hospital because of Hodgkin's disease of the anterior mediastinum and the radiographic finding of a pelvic mass.

The patient had been well until about four months earlier, when pleuritic pain developed in the left side of the chest and he entered another hospital. Radiographs of the chest, a ventilation–perfusion scan, and the results of a pulmonary angiographic examination were reported to be normal, and the patient was discharged after three days with a diagnosis of "viral pleurisy." At follow-up examination performed by his personal physician two months later because of left scapular pain, . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Differential Diagnosis

Clinical Diagnoses

Dr. David P. Schenkein's Diagnoses

Pathological Discussion

Anatomical Diagnosis

Addendum

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