Table 1.
Authors | Federico 1 | Tokunaga 2 | Mourad 3 | Lachenal 9 | Siegert 4 | Aozasa 25 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Patient number | 243 | 207 | 157 | 77 | 62 | 44 |
Age, years | ||||||
Mean | 65 | 67 | 62 | 64.5 | 64 | 64 |
Range | 20–86 | 34–91 | 20–89 | 30–91 | 21–87 | 25–84 |
Male sex | 56 | 64 | 56 | 58 | 55 | |
Lymphadenopathy | ||||||
Generalized | 76 | 90 | 84 | |||
Localized | 24 | 9 | 16 | |||
Skin rash | 21 | 44 | 45 | 49 | 27 | |
B symptoms | 69 | 60 | 72 | 77 | 68 | |
Splenomegaly | 35 | 51 | 39 | |||
Hepatomegaly | 26 | 26 | 52 | |||
Effusion/edema/ascites | 14 | 26 | 25 | >38 | ||
Bone marrow involvement | 28 | 29 | 47 | |||
Extranodal sites, >1 | 27 | 23 | 46 | |||
Anemia | 33 | 61 | 65 | 51 | 57 | 20 |
Platelet count <150 × 109/L | 25 | 34 | 20 | 20 | ||
Elevated LDH | 60 | 75 | 66 | 71 | 70 | |
Elevated C-reactive protein | 35 | 46 | 67 | |||
Hypergammaglobulinemia | 30 | 50 | 51 | 51 | 64 | |
Positive Coombs test | 13 | 46 | 33 | 58 | 32 |
LDH, Lactate dehydrogenase.