Computerized tomography diagnosis of lymphadenopathies in malignant non-Hodgkin's lymphomas
Cheremisin, V.M.; Mazurov, V.I.; Anosov, N.A.; Savello, V.E.; Belov, A.F.; Novik, A.A.; Mel'nichenko, V.I.; Nikolaevich, M.S.
Vestnik Rentgenologii i Radiologii 6: 5-10
1996
ISSN/ISBN: 0042-4676 PMID: 9027080 Document Number: 461559
The potentialities of computer-aided tomography (CAT) in the diagnosis of lymphomas were studied. A total of 223 patients with disseminated lymphadenopathy were examined (78 with malignant non-Hodgkin's lymphomas, 48 with Hodgkin's disease, 54 with metastatic involvement of the lymph nodes, 18 with HIV infection, and 25 with reactive and inflammatory lymphadenopathy). CAT helped precisely assess the dissemination of the pathological process and disease stage in patients with malignant lymphomas, permitted follow up the time course of the disease, and facilitated differentiation of the condition from other diseases manifesting by disseminated lymphadenopathies.