Frequency and pattern of hodgkin's disease in northern Pakistan

ABSTRACT

During the thirteen and a half years period 3,355 lymph node biopsies were examined. A diagnosis of malignant wits made in 428 patients of which 136 [31.99%] were found to have Hodgkin's disease which included 100 males and 36 Females. The majority of patients were under thirty years of age with no evidence of bimodality. The histological type was mixed cellularity [GG.95%]