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Atypical lymphocyte morphology: an adverse prognostic factor for disease progression in stage A CLL independent of trisomy 12
1 Sept 1997
Abstract excerpt
We studied 270 patients with Binet stage A chronic lymphocytic leukaemia looking for adverse prognostic factors. In a multivariate analysis the following features were found to be risk factors for disease progression: atypical lymphocyte morphology (defined as either > 10% prolymphocytes or > 15% lymphocytes with cleaved nuclei or lymphoplasmacytoid cells); more than two karyotypic abnormalities; lymphocyte count...
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