1  treatment on both sides of the diaphragm or staging laparotomy.

2 sation (200 patients in each arm) followed a staging laparotomy.

3                Forty-five patients (25%) had staging laparotomy; 34 (19%) had extranodal involvement.

4  stage IA to IIA patients without performing staging laparotomy and that three cycles of chemotherapy

5                          To evaluate whether staging laparotomy could be safely avoided in early-stag

6 , for a 25-year-old patient, proceeding with staging laparotomy resulted in a gain in life expectancy

7 ic Hodgkin's disease were randomized without staging laparotomy to treatment with either subtotal lym

8    Univariate analysis showed that youth and staging laparotomy were associated with significantly be