Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical (Jun 2012)

Lymphogranuloma venereum and non-Hodgkin lymphoma: a case report

  • Mauro Romero Leal Passos,
  • Wilma Nancy Campos Arze,
  • Felipe Dinau Leal Passos,
  • Priscilla Frauches Madureira de Faria,
  • Renata Queiroz Varella,
  • Mariana Dinau Leal Passos,
  • Dennis de Carvalho Ferreira

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1590/S0037-86822012000300029
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 45, no. 3
pp. 412 – 414

Abstract

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Lymphogranuloma venereum (LGV) is an uncommon, contagious, sexually transmitted disease (STD). We report a case of a 17-year-old teenager who presented with a 2-month-old ulcerous vegetant lesion in the right inguinal region. The patient was diagnosed with LGV and received erythromycin treatment. Three months after treatment, he presented with a new ulcerous lesion, very similar to the previous one, in the right supraclavicular region. He was diagnosed with a diffuse large B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Both diseases are rare in Rio de Janeiro City, Brazil, and physicians should not neglect the possibility of STDs in such cases.

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