PERIPHERAL THROMBOCYTOPENIA, ACCESSORY SPLEEN AND HODGKINS-DISEASE - AN UNUSUAL COMBINATION

A 32-year-old male developed severe autoimmune thrombocytopenia refrac tory to conventional immunosuppression. He had been treated with radio therapy for stage I-A Hodgkin's disease (HD) 2 years earlier after a s taging laparotomy and splenectomy. A 3-cm accessory spleen was detecte d using computed tomography scan and Tc-99m scintigraphy. Resection re sulted in normalization of the platelet counts. Two years later the pa tient remains in remission of both diseases. Immune thrombocytopenia i s rarely associated with HD and its remission following resection of a n accessory spleen is an unusual finding.