| Abstract: | Clinical symptoms and haematological disorders in patients suffering from lymphoplasmatic/lymphoplasmocytoidal lymphoma were presented, 82 patients were examined (median age of 63), all of the in clinical stage IV (ANN Arbor scale). In all of the patients bone marrow was invaded. The most common symptom was enlargement of peripheral lymph nodes (86%) less often abdominal ones (21%). Splenomegalia was found in 55% and hepatomegalia in 49% of patients 35% of patients had anaemia and 38% thrombocytopenia. Close to 1/3 of patients dermatoses were found, in most cases allergic ones. In 7% another cancer was found. |
