[Pleural lesions in patients with Hodgkin's disease with pulmonary involvement]

A retrospective study of 334 primary patients with Hodgkin's disease with the affected mediastinal lymph nodes and pulmonary tissue (stages IIE, IV) was carried out. Pleural affection was detected in 280 (88.8%) patients. Limited pleural affection resulting from contact dissemination from the enlarged lymph nodes was shown to make no effect on prognosis. Generalized involvement of the pleura was shown to deteriorate considerably a course of disease in patients with contact (localized) pulmonary involvement and to have no prognostic importance in disseminated involvement.