Clinical characteristics of 84 cases of children malignant lymphoma

This article reported the clinical characteristics of 84 cases of children malignant lymphoma. Ratio of male to female was 5.5:1. The age distribution of HD and NHL in the childhood with peak incidence at 5～9 years of age and 6～10 years of age, respectively. Approximately 72.6% have lymph node enlargement as a first clinical presentation. Extramodal involvement as a first clinical presentation was only defected in the NHL, comprising nearly 48.8% of the all non-Hodykin's lynphoma that our report. Intermediate and high gradehistology non-Hodgkin's lymphoma comprises about 77.1% of all NHL. of all cases, approximately 53.3% are usually generalized in distribution at the diagnosis, 18.6% of such non-Hodgkin's lymyhoma was transmuted to leukemia. Cerbromeningeal infiltration occurs in about 11.6% of patient. These results indicated that inteusiue chemotherapy be able to tnhance the response rates and survival rates of non-Hodykin's lyapchoma.