sare KABUKÇUOĞLU, Nilüfer TEL, Emine DÜNDAR, Serap IŞIKSOY, Ülkü ÖNER, Zeki ÜSTÜNER

Bone Marrow involvement and myelofibrosis in hodgkin's disease

The importance of bone marrow biopsy in Hodgkin's disease is well known. The incidence of bone marrow involvement in Hodgkin's disease varies from 2% to 29%. The presence of myelofibrosis is not suffirent evidence for a definitive diagnosis of bone marrow involvement. Patients having myelofibrosis as a first symptom without peripheral lympadenopathy must be distin-guished from patients with idiopathic myelofibrosis. In this study, we examined the frequency of bone marrow involvement and the degree of myelofibrosis in Hodgkin's dis-ease. We found the incidence of bone marrow involvement to be 5.26%, and that of myelofibrosis to be 31.6%. The high inci-dence of myelofibrosis in Hodgkin's disease suggests that Hodgkin's disease must be investigated for early diagnosis and therapy in the case of idiopathic myelofibrosis.

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