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The main features of lymphocyte predominance Hodgkin’s disease [46.1] are now well recognized. However, although most pathologists have a clear idea of the nature of Hodgkin’s disease, it is a difficult concept to communicate to a non-medically qualified person. The only simple definition is the rather vague one that it is a grouping of malignant lymphomas which share distinctive common clinical and histologic features. It tends to arise in lymph nodes, at least in immunocompetent patients, and it progresses in a steady, predictable fashion, affecting contiguous lymph nodes.
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Banks, P.M. (1999). Morphologic, immunologic and genetic features of lymphocyte predominance Hodgkin’s disease. In: Mason, D.Y., Harris, N.L. (eds) Human Lymphoma: Clinical Implications of the REAL Classification. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-0857-3_46
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