Chemo-immunotherapy for hairy cell leukemia

Hairy cell leukemia-variant.

Hairy cell leukaemia variant is a very rare chronic lymphoproliferative disorder and is closely related to hairy cell leukemia. We hereby describe a case of hairy cell leukaemia variant for the first time in Saudi Arabia. An elderly Saudi man presented with pallor, massive splenomegaly, and moderate hepatomegaly. Hemoglobin was 7.7 g/dl, Platelets were 134 x109/l and white blood count was 140x1...

Hairy Cell Leukemia in a Young Male: An Unusual Presentation

Dear Editor-in-Chief A 28 yr male was presented in October 2015 at Medicine Outpatient Department, Safdarjung Hospital, New Delhi- India with generalized weakness, fever and cough for preceding 15 days. Clinicoradiologic examination revealed pallor, firm, non-tender splenomegaly measuring 13.7 cm and hepatomegaly (liver span - 16.9 cm). However, no lymphadenopathy was found.

Case 4: Hairy Cell Leukemia

Clinical staging system for hairy-cell leukemia.

To find a clinical staging system for patients with hairy cell leukemia, 391 patients contributed by 22 centers were analyzed using the proportional hazard survival model. Attention was paid to nonsplenectomized patients to find a staging system to predict the survival length at the time of diagnosis. On the basis of hemoglobin level and spleen size at the time of diagnosis, 3 stages could be d...

Treatment of hairy-cell leukemia.

AIRY CELL LEUKEMIA (HCL), or leukemic reticuH loendotheliosis, is a chronic lymphoproliferative disease that was first described as a distinct clinicopathologic entity by Bouroncle et a1 in 1958.' It is characterized by mononuclear cells of B-lymphocyte origin in the peripheral blood that have prominent cytoplasmic projections staining with tartrate-resistant acid phosphatase' and by its typica...