Non-Hodgkin malignant lymphomas. Clinico-pathologic correlations with the Kiel classification: Retrospective analysis of a series of 274 cases

Abstract

Three hundred and sixty case histories of patients followed for non-Hodgkin lymphoma between 1965 and 1976 were reviewed from the histologic point of view for classification according to Kiel's nomenclature. The diagnosis was rectified for 86 patients and confirmed for the 274 remaining ones; these latter cases were classified and their clinicopathologic and evolutive correlations studied. The most striking fact is a very distinct difference between the so-called low grade forms, which have a non-corrected median survival of four and a half years, whereas in the high grade forms it is 7 months. Except for a few minor differences, the observations noted in this series cross-check those previously published.