Can Toxoplasmic Lymphadenitis Be Diagnosed Histologically?

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Abstract
Elsewhere in this issue of the Journal Dorfman and Remington supply data with which to answer this question. The histopathologic evaluation of lymphnode biopsies falls essentially into three groups of diagnoses: inflammatory lesions with recognizable cause, neoplasia (primary and metastatic) and reactive hyperplasias of undetermined origin. It is this large third group that is under discussion.Out of the multitude of reactive patterns, Robb-Smith, as early as 1947, singled out a morphologically and clinically characteristic group under the name of medullary lymphohistiocytic reticulosis of unknown cause.1 Independently, Piringer-Kuchinka, in 1952, described this type of lymphadenitis in more detail, morphologically and . . .