Letter to the Editor

Extranodal Hodgkin Disease Presenting with Gluteal Mass and Hypercalcemia

Authors: Gungor Utkan, Abdullah Buyukcelik, Bulent Yalcin, Ibrahim Tek, Hatice Doruk, Dilek Dincol, Selim Erekul, Meltem Baykara

Abstract

We wish to report the case of a 68-year-old male who presented with a gluteal mass and hypercalcemia. Although gluteal masses have been described in advanced Hodgkin disease,1 in our patient, the gluteal mass was the presenting sign. Similarly, although hypercalcemia may develop during the course of lung cancer, multiple myeloma, breast cancer and non-Hodgkin lymphoma, it is less frequent in Hodgkin disease.2

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References

1. Ariad S, Hatskelzon L Benharroch D, et al. Gluteal manifestation of advanced Hodgkin's disease.Skeletal Radiol 1997;26:622–625.
 
2. Ellis RD, Beck PR, Mondal BK. Hodgkin's disease presenting with hypercalcaemia. J Clin Pathol1989;42:1228.