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'''Hodgkin [[lymphoma]]''', abbreviated '''HL''', is a malignancy that afflicts people in the prime of their life. Fortunately, it usually has a good prognosis. | '''Hodgkin [[lymphoma]]''', abbreviated '''HL''', is a [[malignancy]] that often afflicts people in the prime of their life. Fortunately, it usually has a good prognosis. | ||
Pathologists say "... it is both the easiest and hardest diagnosis to make." The reason for this is: the diagnosis depends on finding Reed-Sternberg cells; if they are obvious the diagnosis is easy... if you can't find 'em and an alternative diagnosis is not apparent -- you wonder whether you're missing them. | Pathologists say "... it is both the easiest and hardest diagnosis to make." The reason for this is: the diagnosis depends on finding Reed-Sternberg cells; if they are obvious the diagnosis is easy... if you can't find 'em and an alternative diagnosis is not apparent -- you wonder whether you're missing them. | ||
==Clinical== | ==General== | ||
===Clinical=== | |||
Symptoms:<ref name=Ref_WMSP567>{{Ref WMSP|567}}</ref> | Symptoms:<ref name=Ref_WMSP567>{{Ref WMSP|567}}</ref> | ||
*"[[B symptoms]]" - all required:<ref>URL: [http://lymphoma.about.com/od/symptoms/f/bsymptoms.htm http://lymphoma.about.com/od/symptoms/f/bsymptoms.htm]. Accessed on: 11 August 2010.</ref> weight loss, night sweats and fever. | *"[[B symptoms]]" - all required:<ref>URL: [http://lymphoma.about.com/od/symptoms/f/bsymptoms.htm http://lymphoma.about.com/od/symptoms/f/bsymptoms.htm]. Accessed on: 11 August 2010.</ref> weight loss, night sweats and fever. | ||
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*Usually good. | *Usually good. | ||
*Unlike non-Hodgkin lymphomas, it spreads in a predictable pattern; thus, staging plays an important role in determining the therapy.<ref name=PCPBoD8_315>{{Ref PCPBoD8|315}}</ref> | *Unlike non-Hodgkin lymphomas, it spreads in a predictable pattern; thus, staging plays an important role in determining the therapy.<ref name=PCPBoD8_315>{{Ref PCPBoD8|315}}</ref> | ||
==Hodgkin lymphoma subtypes== | ==Hodgkin lymphoma subtypes== | ||
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*Different IHC and morphologic appearance than classic HL. | *Different IHC and morphologic appearance than classic HL. | ||
*Significant risk for transformation into [[diffuse large B cell lymphoma]] (DLBCL); 10-year cumulative transformation rate (to DLBCL) in one study was 12%.<ref name=pmid20029973 >{{cite journal |author=Biasoli I, Stamatoullas A, Meignin V, ''et al.'' |title=Nodular, lymphocyte-predominant Hodgkin lymphoma: a long-term study and analysis of transformation to diffuse large B-cell lymphoma in a cohort of 164 patients from the Adult Lymphoma Study Group |journal=Cancer |volume=116 |issue=3 |pages=631–9 |year=2010 |month=February |pmid=20029973 |doi=10.1002/cncr.24819 |url=}}</ref> | *Significant risk for transformation into [[diffuse large B cell lymphoma]] (DLBCL); 10-year cumulative transformation rate (to DLBCL) in one study was 12%.<ref name=pmid20029973 >{{cite journal |author=Biasoli I, Stamatoullas A, Meignin V, ''et al.'' |title=Nodular, lymphocyte-predominant Hodgkin lymphoma: a long-term study and analysis of transformation to diffuse large B-cell lymphoma in a cohort of 164 patients from the Adult Lymphoma Study Group |journal=Cancer |volume=116 |issue=3 |pages=631–9 |year=2010 |month=February |pmid=20029973 |doi=10.1002/cncr.24819 |url=}}</ref> | ||
==Gross== | |||
Location: | |||
*Almost always arises from a [[lymph node]] - classically in the neck. | |||
**''Extranodal Hodgkin lymphoma'' is (case report) rare.<ref name=pmid11100066>{{Cite journal | last1 = Vadmal | first1 = MS. | last2 = LaValle | first2 = GP. | last3 = DeYoung | first3 = BR. | last4 = Frankel | first4 = WL. | last5 = Marsh | first5 = WL. | title = Primary localized extranodal hodgkin disease of the transverse colon. | journal = Arch Pathol Lab Med | volume = 124 | issue = 12 | pages = 1824-7 | month = Dec | year = 2000 | doi = 10.1043/0003-9985(2000)1241824:PLEHDO2.0.CO;2 | PMID = 11100066 }}</ref> | |||
==Microscopic== | ==Microscopic== | ||