Significance of biochemical markers in Morbus Hodgkin.

Statistically significant changes of the values of biochemical tests can be utilized in complex clinical and laboratory diagnosis and in appreciating the status of the disease in Hodgkin's lymphomas. Considering the increasing number of biochemical tests and their common nonspecificity, urgent necessity appears to verify their importance in malignant diseases. The authors analyzed 2626 biochemical examinations in 39 patients with M.

Nucleoli in lymphocytes of the peripheral blood in Hodgkin's disease: I. Changes in the course of the disease.

The authors examined systematically for three years in 38 patients with Hodgkin lymphomas the diagnostic value of nucleoli in lymphocytes of peripheral blood. A total of 241 examinations were made of 23 variables of the lymphocytic nucleolar test and other haematological values. Twelve healthy persons were subjected to the same examinations five times in two-week intervals.

As bone marrow scintigraphy in patients treated with chemotherapy and/or radiotherapy.

Bone marrow scintigraphy after the application of indium 111In was compared with the results of bone marrow puncture in 18 patients with Hodgkin's disease treated with radiotherapy and/or chemotherapy. Agreement was found in 85% of the cases. When the results of bone marrow puncture were compared with the general state of haemopoiesis estimated scintigraphically agreement was found in only 65%.