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Mediastinal lymphadenopathy in a patient with previously treated T‐cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemia
Author(s) -
Karanth Narayan,
Prabhash Kumar P,
Karanth Pranjali N,
Shet Tanuja,
Banavali Shripad D,
Parikh Purvish M
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2008.tb01537.x
Subject(s) - medicine , mediastinal lymphadenopathy , radiology , computed tomography
Mediastinal lymphadenopathy in a patient with previously treated T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemia is a diagnostic problem. The differential diagnosis in an adult is sarcoidosis, metastases, lymphoma or, rarely, tuberculosis. Mediastinal lymph node involvement is uncommon in tuberculosis. In view of its relative rarity but good prognosis, it is important to distinguish tuberculous mediastinal lymphadenitis in adults from other causes of mediastinal masses.