Hairy cell lymphoma: a unique presentation of hairy cell leukaemia
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Hairy cell leukaemia.
Hairy cell leukaemia is a rare form of lymphoproliferative disease that affects 2% of leukaemia patients and was first described in 1958 as leukaemic reticuloendotheliosis. The typical presentation is pancytopenia, splenomegaly and abnormal lymphoid cells in blood with hairy cytoplasmic projections. The pathological hairy cell resembles in many ways B-lymphocyte as in chronic lymphocytic leukae...
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عنوان ژورنال: British Journal of Haematology
سال: 2013
ISSN: 0007-1048
DOI: 10.1111/bjh.12420