Cerebellar involvement in Hodgkin’s lymphoma: an atypical site of relapse

Abstract

The presentation of intracranial metastases from Hodgkin's lymphoma is an infrequent event that worsens clinical outcome. A case of Hodgkin's lymphoma relapse in the cerebellum is described in a 70-year-old woman with a previously treated stage IVA Hodgkin's lymphoma. Diagnostic workup and treatment strategies for central nervous system relapses are reviewed and discussed. A combination of surgery, radiotherapy and occasionally chemotherapy remains the most appropriate approach to intracranial Hodgkin's lymphoma.

Hodgkin's disease presenting as discharging neck sinuses and a mediastinal mass

“…The sites include in the cerebellum,17 nasopharynx,18 scalp,19 ear lobe,20 cavernous sinus,21 larynx,22 central nervous system,23 intracerebral 24. Unusual presentations in the head and neck also include as limbic encephalitis 25…”