A survey into the the clinical presentation of Hodgkin's disease at Harare Hospital, Salisbury, Rhodesia.

A series of 20 cases of Hodgkins disease in Africans is presented. Mode of clinical presentation, haematological abnormalities and type of histological picture closely paralleled studies performed elsewhere in the world. The great majority of cases were in either Stage III or Stage IV, all patients in this series with the lymphocyte-depletion being aged under 20 years of age.