Renal failure caused by retroperitoneal involvement of Hodgkin's disease of the lymphocyte-depletion type.

The paper presents the case of a man with non-functioning unilateral kidney due to retroperitoneal and renal lymph node involvement of Hodgkin's disease, which we interpreted as unilateral renal pelvic tumor. The disease had progressed rapidly to its termination and renal failure in addition to cachexia developed. Nephrostomy on the tumor-uninvolved side had failed to restore renal function and the patient died 3 days after surgery. The study concerns the lack of clinical entity of the nephrotic syndrome even in the absence of glomerulonephropathy often described in the literature dealing with Hodgkin's disease.