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'Secondary' Operative Staging of Patients With Lymphoma
William W. Coon, MD;
Lyubica Dabich, MD;
May L. Votaw, MD
Arch Surg. 1980;115(4):401-404.
Abstract
• Secondary operative staging (diagnostic celiotomy after initial lymphoma staging and treatment) is of value in selected patients with Hodgkin's disease if, after appropriate clinical staging, there remains a reasonable doubt concerning the presence of residual or recurrent lymphoma. In our experience, although signs indicating possible recurrence were present in 35 patients, only 20 of these were found to have Hodgkin's disease within the abdomen at operation. These findings allowed us to restrict our intensive therapy to those with documented disease and to withhold potentially harmful treatment from the remaining subjects who on follow-up have shown no evidence to date of subsequent recurrence within the abdomen. The utilization of secondary operative staging in ten patients with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma has been less productive and is not recommended on the basis of our limited current experience.
(Arch Surg 115:401-404, 1980)
Author Affiliations
From the Departments of Surgery (Dr Coon) and Medicine (Dr Dabich), University of Michigan Medical Center, Ann Arbor; and the Department of Medicine, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City (Dr Votaw).
Footnotes
Accepted for publication Dec 13, 1979.
Read before the 87th annual meeting of the Western Surgical Association, Colorado Springs, Colo, Nov 12, 1979.
Reprint requests to Department of Surgery, University of Michigan Medical Center, 1405 E Ann St, Ann Arbor, Ml 48109 (Dr Coon).
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