Leukemization of Follicular Lymphoma: Diagnostic Features and Clinical Course of a Rare Form of the Disease

Follicular lymphoma is a frequent lymphoid neoplasm, accounting for 22 percent of all non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in Russia. At diagnosis, some patients with FL manifest a detectable leukemic phase – leukemization (FL-LP), but this feature has been seldom described and has a poor prognosis.

Source: Clinical Lymphoma, Myeloma and Leukemia - August 26, 2016 Category: Hematology Authors: Ekaterina Nesterova, Alla Kovrigina, Jana Mangasarova, Lybov Plastinina, Tatyana Obukhova, Eduard Gemdzhian, Hunan Julhakyan, Ivan Vorobyev, Sergey Kravchenko Source Type: research