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Alcohol pain in Hodgkin's disease
Author(s) -
Atkinson K.,
Austin D. E.,
McElwain T. J.,
Peckham M. J.
Publication year - 1976
Publication title -
cancer
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.052
H-Index - 304
eISSN - 1097-0142
pISSN - 0008-543X
DOI - 10.1002/1097-0142(197602)37:2<895::aid-cncr2820370239>3.0.co;2-1
Subject(s) - medicine , disease , nodular sclerosis , stage (stratigraphy) , alcohol , lymph , surgery , pathology , lymphoma , hodgkin lymphoma , paleontology , biochemistry , chemistry , biology
Thirty‐five patients with Hodgkin's disease experienced alcohol pain. Nodular sclerosis was the predominant histological grade (77%). Alcohol pain was associated with other factors generally considered to indicate an unfavorable prognosis—systemic symptoms, Stage II disease with multiple site involvement, Stage III or IV disease. Enlargement and a rise in temperature of lymph nodes were both noted at the time of alcohol pain. Objective evidence of disease was either present at or appeared at the site of pain in the majority (86%) of patients with this symptom.