Reticuloendotheliosis, Lympoid Tumour Disease
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Alternate Names : Leukemic reticuloendotheliosis, HCL, Leukemia - hairy cell
Definition
Hairy cell leukemia (HCL) is a rare cancer of the blood. It affects B cells, a type of white blood cell (lymphocyte).
Alternate Names : Pulmonary Histiocytosis X, Histiocytosis X, Eosinophilic Granuloma, Nonlipid Reticuloendotheliosis, Langerhans Histiocytoses, Letterer-Siwe Disease, Hand-Schuller-Christian Disease, Pulmonary Langerhans' Granulomatosis ...
Leukemic Reticuloendotheliosis
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Hairy cell leukemia (HCL) is a rare type of blood cancer characterized by abnormal changes in white blood cells known as B lymphocytes.
Leukemic reticuloendotheliosis; HCL; Leukemia - hairy cell
Causes
HCL is caused by the abnormal growth of B cells. The cells look "hairy" under the microscope because they have fine projections coming from their surface.
Leukemic reticuloendotheliosis; HCL; Leukemia - hairy cell
References
Goldman L, Ausiello D, eds. Cecil Medicine. 23rd ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2007: pp.1403-1404.
Nonlipid Reticuloendotheliosis - Histiocytosis
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(HCL; Leukemic Reticuloendotheliosis)
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Family of retrovirus-associated DNA sequences (v-rel) originally isolated from an avian reticuloendotheliosis virus strain.
The disease was formally named leukemic reticuloendotheliosis and its characterization significantly advanced by Bertha Bouroncle and colleagues at The Ohio State University College of Medicine in 1958.
Langerhans cell histiocytosis is the terminology currently preferred over histiocytosis X, eosinophilic granuloma, Abt-Letterer-Siwe disease, Hand-Schuller-Christian disease, or diffuse reticuloendotheliosis.
Hairy cell leukemia was first described in 1958 and was misleadingly called leukemic reticuloendotheliosis.
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