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Until recently, radical surgery was virtually ignored as a means of obtaining increased survival or even cure of Hodgkin’s disease. Surgery was regarded as an ineffectual form of treatment, except as a means of palliation, and was employed for the removal of inconvenient swellings rather than in the hope of curing the patient. Biopsy was felt to be the sole motive for surgery and cases where satisfactory results followed radical excision of lymph nodes in single-site forms were attributed to luck rather than judgement. Splenectomy was carried out in cases of enormous enlargement but its outcome was felt to be uncertain.
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Anglesio, E. (1969). Surgical Treatment. In: The Treatment of Hodgkin’s Disease. Recent Results in Cancer Research / Fortschritte der Krebsforschung / Progrès dans les recherches sur le cancer, vol 18. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-48266-3_2
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