Hodgkin's disease in children.A clinicopathological study of 46 cases

H subject of several individual case reports and of a few collected series.2.8~ 7 The larger series.'. 51 9 9 11.15 defining this disease have referred to relatively small numbers of children, and little specific attention has been given to them. Nevertheless the view is prevalent that the prognosis of the disease in children is poor and that the disease tends to run a uniformly fatal and often rapid course.*# 7.18 Such a pessimistic attitude has an important influence upon therapy in that all procedures are necessarily considered palliative rather than curative. In order to evaluate this attitude and to gain a better perspective of Hodgkin's disease involving children, this paper summarizes the information from a study of all cases seen at the St. Louis Children's Hospital and Barnes Hospital, St. Louis, Mo., from 1914 through 1953. This provides a minimum follow-up period of 5 years.