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Polyclonal B-cell lymphocytosis with features resembling hairy cell leukemia-Japanese variant.
Blood - 15 Mar 1997
Machii T, Yamaguchi M, Inoue R, Tokumine Y, Kuratsune H, Nagai H, Fukuda S, Furuyama K, Yamada O, Yahata Y, Kitani T
Abstract excerpt
Polyclonal B lymphocytosis was found in four patients having clinical and hematologic features resembling those of hairy cell leukemia (HCL). All four patients were women between 37 and 67 years of age. Three patients had splenomegaly. Lymphadenopthy was absent or slight. Persistent lymphocytosis was seen in all the patients, and anemia and/or thrombopenia was observed in three of the patients. Abnormal...
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