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Novel leukemic lymphoma with probable derivation from immature stage of natural killer (NK) lineage in an aged patient.
Hematological oncology - 1 Jan 2000
Kawano S, Tatsumi E, Yoneda N, Yamaguchi N, Goji J, Ito H, Nagai T, Nishikori M, Okamura A, Koiwai O
Abstract excerpt
A 66-year-old male patient was admitted with dyspnea; physical examination revealed petechiae and systemic lymphadenopathy. Laboratory findings showed leukemia. The blasts in the peripheral blood were negative for cytochemical myeloperoxidase, and had condensed nuclear chromatin with a nucleolus. The histological diagnosis of the biopsied neck lymph node was lymphoblastic lymphoma. The leukemia cells expressed...
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