OME - Day 10 Flashcards
80 year old man with fatigue, lymphadenopathy, splenomegaly, and with a white count of 80,000 (99% lymphocytes), diagnosis?
CLL
Auer Rods, diagnosis and next step?
AML, M3, treat with all-trans retinoic acid
Blast Crisis?
CML conversion into AML
CALLA and TdT positive?
ALL
Child, bone pain, frequent infection, diagnosis?
ALL
How do you treat CML?
Imatinib
T(9,22)?
Philadelphia Chromosome, BCR-ABL, CML
What does the bone marrow look like in acute leukemia?
> 20% blasts
What is the treatment of ALL?
ARA-C intrathecally
Fever that come and go, cyclical fevers, diagnosis?
Pel-Epstein fever = Hodgkin’s
How do you determine the stage of Lymphoma?
CT scan chest / abdomen
How do you treat early stage lymphoma?
Radiation
How do you treat late stage lymphoma?
Chemo
Nontender lymphadenopathy made worse with alcohol, diagnosis?
Hodgkin’s Lymphoma
Nontender Lymphadenopathy?
Excisional biopsy (not FNA)