Lymphoma-Nodal Tuberculosis Association: A Diagnostic and Therapeutic Challenge

Abstract

Tuberculosis, an infectious disease with a wide global distribution, constitutes one of the most frequent causes of morbidity and mortality in underdeveloped countries. On the other hand, Hodgkin lymphoma, a rare lymphoid malignancy, tends to have a wide differential diagnosis, including extrapulmonary tuberculosis. We present the case of a 10-year-old male patient, from an endemic area for tuberculosis, with a one-month history of increased abdominal volume, associated with evening fever and weight loss, initially treated as gastroenteric symptoms, however , with multiple studies it was possible to document lymph node tuberculosis and classical Hodgkin lymphoma in its variant nodular sclerosis in stage IV b, constituting a diagnostic and therapeutic challenge.