By Lorenzo Cerroni, Helmut Kerl, and Kevin Gatter. 123 pp., illustrated. Boston, Blackwell Science, 1998. $199.95. ISBN 0-632-05082-9.
The classification of lymphomas has been a challenge to ourintellect and to our science. Over the past 40 years, we havemoved through numerous classification schemes, which have variedin usefulness. Some schemes were purely morphologic classificationswith some clinical implications, such as those based on whetherthe tumor cells were small, medium, or large lymphocytes (e.g.,the Rappaport classification). Others have been more clinicallyoriented and have encompassed a number of different morphologictypes; for example, in the Working Formulation, lymphomas weregrouped into low, intermediate, and high grades according totheir clinical behavior. High-grade lymphomas included both. . . [Full Text of this Article]
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