title: Childhood lymphoma. A clinicopathological and immunohistological study of 58 cases.
abstract: Fifty-eight cases diagnosed as malignant lymphoma in patients younger than 15 years between 1976 and 1986 in the Kanto area were reviewed and reclassified as follow: 48 non-Hodgkin's lymphomas, 9 Hodgkin's disease and one malignant histiocytosis. Lymphoblastic type consisted of 26 cases or 54.2%; large cell type, 11 cases or 22.9%; Burkitt's type, 7 cases or 14.5%; medium-sized cell type and mixed cell type consisted of 4 cases. There was no follicular lymphoma case. A rare sclerosing mediastinal lymphoblastic lymphoma and diffuse large cell lymphomas with T-zone involvement as well as primary epidural Burkitt's lymphomas were found. Immunohistochemical studies using paraffin sections were performed in 43 non-Hodgkin's lymphomas and phenotypes of 37 cases were determined as follows; T cell origin in 24, B cell origin in 11 and non-T non-B in 2 cases. Of 25 lymphoblastic lymphomas, LCA was positive only in 11 cases. Reed-Sternberg cells and their variants of Hodgkin's disease reacted with anti-Leu M1 antibody in 3 of 8 examined but not with EMA antibody. This study revealed that the survival was related to sites of the primary lesion, regardless of histological type and immunologic phenotypes.
authors.affiliation: First Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, Chiba University, Japan.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Mizugami
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Mikata
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Hajikano
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Asanuma
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002051:Burkitt Lymphoma / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000276:immunology / Q000473:pathology; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006689:Hodgkin Disease / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000276:immunology / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D007150:Immunohistochemistry; D008206:Lymphatic Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000276:immunology / Q000473:pathology; D008223:Lymphoma / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000276:immunology / Q000378:metabolism*; D008228:Lymphoma, Non-Hodgkin / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000276:immunology / Q000473:pathology; D008297:Male