LYMPHOMAS

Lymphomas

Lymphomas

Summary

Lymphoma is a disease caused by malignant lymphocytes. These lymphocytes accumulate in lymph nodes and cause clinical features of lymphadenopathy. Lymphomas disease is divided into Hodgkin lymphoma and non-Hodgkin lymphoma. The presence of Reed-Sternberg cells in Hodgkin lymphoma is the basis of this division. Reed-Sternberg cells are neoplastic B cells. Most cells in the lymph node are reactive inflammatory cells. The common clinical appearance is with painless irregular lymphadenopathy. It most commonly occurs in the neck.

In 1832, Lymphomas Thomas Hodgkin described Lymphomas. In 1898, Dorothy Reed and Carl Sternberg identified the abnormal cell that defines this subtype of lymphoma. ...