Primary localized amyloidosis manifested as supraclavicular and mediastinal lymphadenopathy
- 1 July 2007
- journal article
- case report
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in The British Journal of Radiology
- Vol. 80 (955), e131-e133
- https://doi.org/10.1259/bjr/52539691
Abstract
Thoracic involvement of amyloidosis is relatively rare, but mediastinal lymphadenopathy in the absence of pulmonary parenchymal involvement is extremely rare. The case presented here is of a previously healthy elderly woman who developed a palpable mass in the right supraclavicular area. The chest CT scan showed extensive, contiguous and homogeneous low attenuated lymphadenopathy with stippled calcification in the right supraclavicular area and mediastinum. Amyloidosis was confirmed histopathologically on a biopsy specimen from a right supraclavicular lymph node. Because there were no other sites found to be affected by amyloidosis and there was no underlying chronic disease, we made a final diagnosis of primary localized amyloidosis involving only the supraclavicular and mediastinal lymph nodes.This publication has 9 references indexed in Scilit:
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