Friday - krafts 1 - Malignant Hematopathology

Question 1

Leukemia vs Lymphoma

Answer 1

BOTH are malignancies of hematopoeitic cells

leukemia starts in bone marrow - myeloid or lymphoid

lymphoma starts in the lymph nodes - hogdkin or non-hodgkin. There are no myeloid lymphoma

Question 2

difference between hodgkin and non-hodgkin lymphoma

Answer 2

hodgkins- has reed-sternberg cells

Question 3

philidelphea chromosome - indicitive of what disease

Answer 3

small chromosone 22 - translocated to chromosome 9 usually

Chromic Myeloid Leukemia
sometimes seen in B-cell ALL