Hodgkin disease developing in patients infected by human immunodeficiency virus results in clinical features and a prognosis similar to those in patients with human immunodeficiency virus-related non-Hodgkin lymphoma

Unlike aggressive non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL), Hodgkin disease (HD) develops rarely in patients who are infected by human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), and its characteristics are not well defined. The authors analyzed the clinicopathologic and prognostic features from a consecutive series of patients with HIV-associated HD who were observed at their institution and compared them with the features observed in a concurrent series of patients with systemic HIV-related NHL.