Primary localized amyloidosis manifested as supraclavicular and mediastinal lymphadenopathy

Authors: Yong, H S; Woo, O H; Lee, J W; Suh, S-i; Oh, Y-W; Kang, E-Y

Source: British Journal of Radiology, Volume 80, Number 955, July 2007 , pp. e131-e133(3)

Publisher: British Institute of Radiology

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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.

Document Type: Case report

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1259/bjr/52539691

Publication date: 2007-07-01