A.G. STANSFELD, and J.A.M. VAN UNNIK. In joint discussions in 1974, the
Club worked out a new terminology that was acceptable to all members and
will hopefully be acceptable to other pathologists. Since then, it has
been called the Kiel Classification. We are also pleased that the
clinicians belonging to the Kiel Lymphoma Study Group-foremost A.
STACHER and G. BRITTINGER- have been able to present preliminary data on
the clinical relevance of the new classification. Finally, our optimism
was fortified by the findings of R.J. LUKES and R.D. COLLINS, which
largely concur with ours in both concept and practical significance.
This book is divided into six main sections. First, there is a chapter
on normal cytology that supplements and, in some respects, revises the
presentation given in Part A of this Handbook (1961). H.K.
MULLER-HERMELINK played a major role in the writing of the first
chapter. The second chapter is a brief description of the
light-microscopic techniques that are used in our laboratories and have
proved to be suitable for a precise diagnosis of lymph-node diseases.