T and B lymphocytes of the regional lymph nodes in patients with carcinoma of uterine cervix.

A comparative study of the peripheral blood and the regional lymph nodes lymphocyte subpopulations at 25 patients with carcinoma of uterine cervix was carried out by non-immune rosettes and immunofluorescence methods. The lymph nodes of ten women not affected with any disease, but operated on the occasion of the traumas were investigated as a control. The patients had a significant reduction of the relative amount of T cells and increase of number of B cells in their lymph nodes as compared with the control group. A significant variability of immune indices of the regional lymph nodes as compared to those of peripheral blood was shown. It was pointed out that the presence of the metastases in the regional lymph nodes is one of the possible reasons of this phenomena. The possible significance of the results is discussed.