Primary Intracerebral Hodgkin's Disease

Abstract
A case of primary intracerebral Hodgkin's disease (HD) without dural attachment in a 54-year-old immunocompetent patient is described. The infiltrate was located superficially in the occipital lobe and corresponded to the histologic type of nodular sclerosis. A typical immunohistochemical profile (membrane and cytoplasmic staining with dotlike Golgi enhancement of CD30, moderate cytoplasmic staining of CD15 in the Golgi area, membrane staining of CD20 of 1 year. To the authors' best knowledge, an association of EBV with primary central nervous system HD has not been demonstrated before.