Hodgkin's Disease

Neurological symptoms are by no means rare in Hodgkin's disease. Usually they are the result of either an invasion of the vertebral canal with compression of the spinal cord or of involvement of peripheral nerves; rarely they are attributable to intracranial deposits.¹Invasion of the tissues of the central nervous system in Hodgkin's disease is very rare and usually occurs only in the last stages of the disease.²Reference has been found to only one case³in which the presenting symptoms were neurological and caused by intracranial deposits of Hodgkin's tissue; in this case the brain substance was invaded. The case to be described is one of Hodgkin's disease in which the presenting symptoms were caused by involvement of several cranial nerves. The brain tissue was invaded, and the disease ran its course without the appearance of symptoms or signs of deposits in any other situation. Report