title: [Clinical features of malignant follicular non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (author's transl)].
abstract: 75 cases treated between 1970 and 1976 for malignant follicular non-Hodgkin's lymphoma were analysed for their cardinal signs. Contrary to non-Hodgkin's lymphoma of "higher malignancy degree", the average age of patients with malignant follicular non-Hodgkin's lymphoma is generally over 50 years, being more common in females. By the time the diagnosis is made a generalised stage has usually been reached. In the described group of patients the five-year survival rate was 65%, but compared with the malignant lymphoma of higher malignancy the prognosis is often complicated by secondary diseases resulting from the higher age. The findings confirm the need for histological sub-classification of malignant non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D001856:Bone Marrow Examination; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008113:Liver Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis; D008223:Lymphoma / Q000175:diagnosis*; D008224:Lymphoma, Follicular / Q000175:diagnosis; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009364:Neoplasm Recurrence, Local; D011379:Prognosis; D012737:Sex Factors; D013160:Splenic Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis
vernacular_title: Zur Klinik der malignen follikulären Non-Hodgkin-Lymphome.