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Hodgkin's disease variant of Richter's syndrome clonally related to chronic lymphocytic leukemia arises in ZAP-70 negative mutated CLL.
Medical hypotheses - 1 Jan 2006
Tzankov Alexandar, Fong Dominic
Abstract excerpt
Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) may derive from either immunoglobulin V(H) gene unmutated (naïve) or mutated (antigen-experienced) post-germinal center B-cells. Richter's syndrome denotes the transformation of CLL into aggressive B-cell lymphoma. Most Richter's syndrome cases are secondary diffuse large B-cell lymphomas, but some are Hodgkin's disease variants. Hodgkin's lymphoma is thought to originate from...
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