During the 10 years since the last edition of Histopathology of Non-Hodgkin's Lymphomas, based on the updated Kiel classification, our knowledge on malignant lymphomas, especially on extranodal lymphomas, has increased. This volume - Histopathology of Nodal and Extranodal Non-Hodgkin's Lymphomas - is an expanded and completely revised edition, now based on the WHO classification. The parallels to the updated Kiel classification and the REAL classification are indicated. The information is organized in organ-specific chapters, comprising the well-known nodal lymphoma entities...

Das fUr die Deutsche Otologcn-Tagung 1963 erstattcte Referat uber die Pathologie der Halslymphknoten ist so freulldlieh aufgenommen worden, daB ieh mieh clem 'Yunseh naeh einer - leieht redigierten - Veroffentliehung fiir einen breitercn Lescrkreis nieht entzichen machtI'. Ieh werde darin bestiirkt durch zwei Tatsaehen. Erstens: Bs gibt derzeit keine monographische Darstellung der gesamten Lymphlmotenpathologie und auch nicht der Pathologie del' Halslymphknoten. So kann der ge botene skizzenhafte AbriB diese Liie!; e wenigstens provisoriseh sehlieBen. Zweitens: Ieh bin noeh den Teil B meines...

A.G. STANSFELD, and J.A.M. VAN UNNIK. In joint discussions in 1974, the Club worked out a new terminology that was acceptable to all members and will hopefully be acceptable to other pathologists. Since then, it has been called the Kiel Classification. We are also pleased that the clinicians belonging to the Kiel Lymphoma Study Group-foremost A. STACHER and G. BRITTINGER have been able to present preliminary data on the clinical relevance of the new classification. Finally, our optimism was fortified by the findings of R.J. LUKES and R.D. COLLINS, which largely concur with ours in both...