title: Staging laparotomy for Hodgkin's disease in children.
abstract: Experience with staging laparotomy in twenty-one children has produced minimal immediate postoperative morbidity. Sepsis in two patients after discharge has prompted the long-term use of penicillin. Confirmation or revision of clinical staging by laparotomy has proved to be an accurate means of determining therapy and prognosis in children.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006689:Hodgkin Disease / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D007813:Laparotomy / Q000009:adverse effects; D008297:Male