Case 5-1997

Abstract

Presentation of CaseA 24-year-old Asian woman was admitted to the hospital because of left cervical lymphadenopathy and fever.The patient had been well until two weeks earlier (one week after returning from a visit to her native Hong Kong), when she experienced pain and tenderness in the left side of her neck and felt a small lymph node in the cervical region. At about the same time, she began to have a low-grade fever, for which she took ibuprofen. Eight days before admission, hematologic tests were performed at another hospital (Table 1). A test for heterophil agglutinins was negative. . . .