Open AccessHODGKIN'S DISEASE Analysis of Fifty‐Three Autopsy Cases
Author(s) -
Aozasa Katsuyuki,
Ito Hiroshi,
Bandai Hisashi,
Yamamoto Shigeo
Publication year - 1981
Publication title -
acta patholigica japonica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.73
H-Index - 74
ISSN - 0001-6632
DOI - 10.1111/j.1440-1827.1981.tb02761.x
Subject(s) - autopsy , pathology , disease , medicine
Eighty‐eight autopsy cases originally diagnosed as Hodgkin's disease (HD) were reevaluated, and 53 cases were obtained as HD. Fifty three cases with HD were composed of 46 males and 7 females and 52 cases had an active disease. Frequencies of 4 subtypes such as lymphocytic predominant, mixed cellularity, lymphocytic depletion, and nodular sclerosis were found to be 25, 54, 14, and 7%, respectively at biopsy and 12, 38, 44, and 6%, respectively at autopsy, showing transition of subtype in HD. The manner of organ involvement, deviation of histologic figures between nodes and/or other organs, associated diseases including non‐bacterial inflammation of lung, amyloidosis and secondary malignancy and differential diangosis of HD from the confusing diseases observed in our series were described.