Immunologic status of Hodgkin's disease
โ Scribed by Alan C. Aisenberg
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1966
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 881 KB
- Volume
- 19
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0008-543X
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
๐ SIMILAR VOLUMES
Cellular immunity was evaluated in 15 untreated patients with Hodgkin's disease before and about 10 days after splenectomy. Skin test-reactivity was not affected by the operation. T h e number of lymphocytes was moderately increased in patients with pathologic stage I and I1 disease. T h e relative
I n 163 consecutively irradiated patients with Hodgkin's disease, Stage 1-111, herpes zoster subsequently occurred in 31 (19%). The incidence of zoster was increased in patients with mixed cellularity histology, Stage 111 disease, and in those patients with early stages treated with extensive irradi