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Two children are presented with Hodgkin's disease and a mediastinal mass which did not respond to polychemotherapy and radiation therapy and proved to be a benign thymic cyst. The coincidence of Hodgkin's disease with a benign thymic cyst has only been reported once before [11]. The diagnostic and therapeutic implications are discussed.
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Prindull, G., Beck, W., Rahlf, G. et al. Hodgkin's disease and a mediastinal tumor. Eur J Pediatr 141, 117–119 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00496803
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