The role of computed tomography of the abdomen in the diagnosis and staging of patients with lymphoma

A Comparison of Staging Methods for Hodgkin's Disease in Children

“…Forty children, there¬ fore, underwent staging laparotomy as well as clinical staging with abdominal CT and/or 67Ga scan. The average age was 11 years (2 to 17 years) in 16 …”

“…16 The pitfalls of CT scanning involve detection of small, uninvolved nodes as well as poor delinea¬ tion of splenic involvement.17 Computed tomography is par¬ ticularly limited in children by the small amount of retro¬ peritoneal fat and the frequent benign lymphadenopathy seen in normal children. In a large series of staging proce¬ dures at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn, Martin et al3 had a 74% accuracy rate with CT scan.…”

Staging Laparotomy in Hodgkin's Disease

“…Addition¬ ally, CT may be a valuable study for follow-up examina¬ tions. The role of CT in staging was recently addressed by Ellert and Kreel16 and Crowther et al 17 The predictive value of lymphangiography and CT scanning was dimin¬ ished by the fact that results in about one third of the examinations were equivocal. Radioactive liver-spleen scans were accurate in 69.6% of 23 interpretable cases, false-negative in five (26.3% ) of 19, and false-positive in two (50%) of four.…”

Prognostic factors for non‐cleaved follicular center‐cell lymphomas and immunoblastic sarcoma A Bayesian approach

“…This procedure should perhaps be used selectively or routinely in cases of a very limited disease (35). New techniques for staging are now in widespread use, and these have been shown to be of value and to possess some advantages over lymphography (36).…”