WBC, LN, SPLEEN, THYMUS Flashcards
Dohle bodies- sky blu cytoplasmic puddles
Sepsis
Neoplasms in bone marrow. Tumor cells found in peripheral blood
Leukemia
Immature leukemia
Acute leukemia
Mature leukemia
Chronic leukemia
MC cancer of children
Acute lymphoblastic leukemia
T(12,21)
ALL
Leukemia that is most responsive to tx
ALL
Primary chemitherapeutic drug for ALL? Wwhat is its catastrphic SE
Asparaginase - pancreatitis
Leukemia with very low alk phos
CML
Chronic phase
10-19% myeloblast
Accelerated phase
> 20% myeloblast
Blast crisis
Solid focus of leukemia outside the bone
Chloroma
Distinctive needle like azurophilic granules
Auer rods
Primary chemotherapeutic drug for CML. SE?
Imatinib - flyid retention, CHF
Most common leukemia in the elderly
Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL)
Increase in WBC count with left shift and high alk phos.
Usually caused by infection
Leukemoid reaction
Leukemia in 15-39 y. O
AML
Leukemia in 25-60 yo
CML
Reed sternberg cells
Hodgkins lymphoma
MC hodgkins lymphoma
Nodular sclerosis
Most common hepatopoietic malignancy
Non hodgkins lymphoma
Most common form of indolent NOn hodgskins lymphoma
Follicular lymphoma
T(14:18
Follicular lymphoma
MC NHL
Diffuse large cell lymphoma
Starry sky pattern. Comon in africans
Burkitts lymphoma
T(11;14)
Mantle lymphoma - poor prognosis
Neoplasm of CD4 + Tcell
Adult t cell lymphoma
T(15;17)
APML
t(9;22)
CML
t(8:14)
Burkitt lymphoma
Diffuse erythema and scaling of the entire body surhace
Sezary syndrome
MC and most deadly plasma cell neoplasm
Multiple myeloma
Defeerentiate waldenstroms macroglobulinemia from multiple myeloma
No lytic lesion in waldenstrom