XXXX in Jordanians: a histopathological study of 231 cases.

@entity1 @entity981 @entity706 @entity2109 @entity9314 @entity8462 @entity1893
Our hospital admitted 231 @entity1 with @entity1893 between June 1976 and November 1984. Review of these cases revealed the following profile: ages ranged from 1 to 70 years (median: 30 years), 156 males, predominantly @entity1 and adolescents, and 75 females. Diffuse histiocytic lymphoma accounted for 40.6 per cent of all cases. Seventeen @entity1 (7 per cent) had @entity8462 . Fifteen @entity1 , predominantly male @entity1 and adolescents, had @entity981 and showed high association with mediastinal mass (47 per cent). @entity706 mostly of the diffuse histiocytic subtype were diagnosed in 100 cases (43.3 per cent) and most frequently situated in the small intestine (59 cases). @entity2109 --32 @entity1 (14 per cent)--presented most often in male @entity1 during the first decade of life and as an abdominal intestinal disease (19 cases). There were four cases of Mediterranean @entity706 ( @entity9314 ). @entity1893 in Jordanians are mostly of the diffuse histiocytic type, are rarely nodular, have a high frequency of extranodal involvement and tend to occur in younger age groups. Mediterranean @entity706 is less frequent than previously thought. The use of both of the Rappaport and Lukes-Collins classifications demonstrated a high degree of reproducibility.
