Abstract
The present paper is concerned with 74 cases of bone involvement observed among 530 patients affected with Hodgkin's disease.
Owing to the large number of cases, some significant statistical considerations were consented. Thus, it could be determined that the «radiologic frequency» of bone involvement in Hodgkin's disease is the 14 per cent. irrespective of age and sex.
As concerns the time of occurrence of skeletal lesions compared to lymph node or visceral involvement, it could be observed that they developed in half cases within the first year of the disease, and in the three quarters of the cases within the first two years. This finding does not confirm, therefore, the view according to which bone changes are the expression of a late clinical stage of Hodgkin's disease.
Bone manifestations have been therefore classified according to the type and site. The obtained statistical observations are in agreement with data by some authors, and diverge from other ones.
Some suggestions derived from personal observations are also exposed.
In the second part of the paper, an iconographic documentation of some unusual roentgenographic pictures observed in the large series of cases are presented.
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