title: Clinical course after mantle treatment of non-laparotomized patients with Hodgkin's disease.
abstract: Forty-two patients with Hodgkin's disease were staged without laparotomy and considered to have only supradiaphragmatic disease. They were treated with the mantle technique and followed up for at least 3 years. Abdominal extension was later found in 31 per cent. It is concluded that occult abdominal disease usually in course of time will give symptoms.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006689:Hodgkin Disease / Q000401:mortality / Q000532:radiotherapy*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008722:Methods; D008875:Middle Aged; D009364:Neoplasm Recurrence, Local