Abstract
To assess the incidence and prognostic significance of osseous Hodgkin's lymphoma. The authors retrospectively analyzed 85 patients treated at their institutions between 1995-2001.
They assessed the incidence of bone involvement, involved localities and basic characteristics of the subgroup (age, gender, stage, histology). All patients were treated according to the protocols of the German Hodgkin Study Group.
Treatment response, disease free- and overall survival were evaluated with special attention to predictive and prognostic significance of bone involvement. Bone involvement is not an adverse predictive factor for treatment response in Hodgkin's lymphoma.
Because of short follow-up period seems preliminary to evaluate its prognostic power for disease free- and overall survival