[Hodgkin's disease in small children (author's transl)]

17 cases of Hodgkin's disease are reported, seen in a ten year period. Age of patients oscillated between three and seven years. There was a predominance of mixed cellularity type in histologic pattern. Most of patients were diagnosed in advanced clinical stages. Primary sign of disease was presence of cervical adenopathies and there were few cases of thoracic disease. Treatment consisted in radiotherapy and chemotherapy, according to histological type and clinical stage. Survival in our serie is of 53.3% with periods of observation from six months to seven years.