[Evaluation of the bone marrow granulocyte reserve in patients with Hodgkin's disease during antiblastic polychemo- and radiation therapy].

The ethiocholanolone test was used to evaluate the granulocyte reserve in 22 patients with Hodgkin's disease before and during polychemical antiblastic and radiation therapy. Under basal conditions, the reserve was normal and its behavior was fairly constantly related to histological type. Stress is laid on the inadequacy of the simple leukocyte count as a guide to the planning of treatment by comparison with the more accurate picture offered by the granulocyte reserve.