Hodgkin's disease presenting as relapsing polychondritis a previously undescribed association

✍ Scribed by Dr Stephen B. Miller; Charles J. Donlan Jr.; Steven B. Roth

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1974
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 340 KB
• Volume: 17
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0004-3591
• DOI: 10.1002/art.1780170515

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

Relapsing polychondritis is a rare syndrome thought to be autoimmune in nature and characterized by inflammation and degeneration of cartilage. The association with a reticuloendothelial malignancy has not previously been reported. A 46‐year‐old man presented typical clinical manifestations of relapsing polychondritis requiring 30 mg of prednisone daily for suppression. However within 6 months he developed chronic fatigue, fevers, night sweats, adenopathy, and splenomegaly leading to the diagnosis of Hodgkin's disease.