Maladie de hodgkin de decouverte musculaire: un mode rare de presentation

ABSTRACT

Visceral localizations in Hodgkin disease are well known and well documented in Ann Arbor Classification. They imply a relatively severe prognosis. Liver, lung and osteomedullar involvements are most frequent. Skeletal muscle involvement seems less frequent, but may be underdocumented. We describe here the case of a Hodgkin's disease evidenced through muscular localization in a 50 year old patient, with negative extension appraisal and a favorable evolution under polychemotherapy. This case is to be linked to the few descriptions already published and brings forth several question the real frequency of such localization, its pathogenicity and its significance for the prognosis are yet unclear