The effects of ultrafractionated X-ray therapy in malignant lymphomas.

To improve the therapeutic methods in malignant lymphomas a new irradiation schedule is suggested i.e., ultrafractionated radiotherapy in small daily doses spaced out over a long period of time until the tumor dose of 3,500 R is reached.

Study of mediastinal and lung involvements in Hodgkin's disease.

Clinical, biological, radiological and radioisotope investigations in 224 patients with Hodgkin's disease revealed a great frequency (100 cases, i.e. 44%) of mediastinal and pleuro-pulmonary involvements, most of them in advanced stages of the disease.

[Contrast medium persistence in lymph nodes as a prognostic criterion in Hodgkin's disease (author's transl)].

The persistence of contrast medium in the inguinal and retroperitoneal lymph nodes was observed in 104 cases of Hodgkin's disease. Systematic observations were continued until the contrast medium had disappeared completely. The maximum period of observation was 36 months.

Relationships between lymphography and the histologic nodal and splenic types in Hodgkin's disease. Considerations on clinical evolution.

Trying to establish the eventual interrelations of the initial histologic nodal type and the splenic one, the general lymphographic picture, the histologic nodal type and spleen involvement, lymphographic and histologic examinations were carried out in 151 patients with Hodgkin's disease. Lympographies were performed in 139 cases, and splenectomy (followed by splenic, hepatic and abdominal lymph node biopsies) in 32. Lymphocyte depletion was found in 72.