Author/Editor		Vovk, Marjeta; Šumi-Križnik, Tatjana; Jenko-Fidler, Marija; Petrič-Grabnar, Gabrijela; Kremžar, Marinka; Novak, Janez; Senčar, Mojca; Zakotnik, Branko; Vodnik-Cerar, Alenka; Jakšić, Branimir
Title		Prognostic value of staging laparotomy in supradiaphragmatic clinical stage I and II Hodgkin's disease
Type		članek
Source		Radiol Oncol
Vol. and No.		Letnik 30, št. 3
Publication year		1996
Volume		str. 205-9
Language		eng
Abstract		In the period 1974-1989, 219 patients with supradiaphragmatic clinical stage I and II Hodgkin's disease were treated at the Institute of Oncology in Ljubljana; of these 95 (43%) patients underwent staging laparotomy. Of laparotomized patients, those with pathological stage III-IV, and of non-laparotomized, those with unfavorable prognostic factors (B-symptoms, bulky mediastinum) received chemotherapy: the remaining patients were treated by irradiation. No statistically significant difference in the survival and disease-free survival between laparotomized and nonlaparotomized patients could be found.
Descriptors		HODGKIN'S DISEASE LAPAROTOMY PROGNOSIS NEOPLASM STAGING SURVIVAL RATE MEDIASTINAL NEOPLASMS ABDOMINAL NEOPLASMS