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Leukemias Overview: ALL, CML, AML, APML, CLL

Acute leukemias > 20% blasts in the peripheral blood smear
cells - Blood & BM ... • Cytopenia -> BM ... Neutrophils • Immature/Myeloblasts ... Age: 50-60 • Auer ... cutaneous plaques) AML
Here are very large, immature myeloblasts with many nucleoli. A distincitve feature of these blasts is
large, immature myeloblasts ... a linear red "Auer ... acute myelogenous leukemia ... (AML) that is most ... Rods #AuerRods #AML
A 37-year-old woman initially presented with pancytopenia and found to have leukopenia (2.1 × 103/μL) with
promyelocytic leukemia ... a bone marrow (BM ... hospitalization and treatment ... (AML) t(8;21), ... AML with maturation
Hyperviscosity Syndrome - Causes and Treatment

 - Waldenstrom macroglobulinemia (most common) / Plasmapheresis 
 - Multiple
Syndrome - Causes and Treatment ... Plasmapheresis - Leukemia ... Hydroxyurea - Leukemia ... hyperleukocytosis (AML ... - MH/CCF/CWRU EM
Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia - Summary

Cancer affecting lymphocytes/Mature B cell neoplasm
 • Lymphocytes accumulate in large numbers
the non-Hodgkin lymphoma ... microglobulin Treatment ... Transform to DLBCL, PML ... ’s lymphoma or acute ... Marginal zone lymphoma
Tumor Lysis Syndrome
An acute, life-threatening condition that appears within 7 days of starting cytotoxic therapies in
like Burkitt's lymphoma ... spontaneously (before any treatments ... in high grade lymphoma ... & Acute leukemia ... malignancies Treatments
Lymphomas and Lymphoproliferative Disorders - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Hodgkin Lymphoma ~40% - Characteristic For Reed-Sternberg (RS) Cells
Algorithm Hodgkin Lymphoma ... Responsive to Treatment ... Treated Like Acute Leukemias ... growth, response to treatment ... relapse - Amy
B-Cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia/Lymphoblastic Lymphoma
Clinical
 - Primarily a disease of childhood, 75% <6 yo
 - Increased
Lymphoblastic Leukemia ... /Lymphoblastic Lymphoma ... disease with limited BM ... Lymphoblastic #Leukemia ... #Lymphoma #hemepath
Hodgkin's Lymphoma vs Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma - Comparison

Hodgkin's Lymphoma:
 • Epidemiology: young adults 20-30, older 50-70
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Hodgkin's Lymphoma ... Immunosuppression (e.g., HIV), EBV ... involved) • No leukemic ... Malignancies (eg CML ... , ALL) • Solid
Hodgkin's Lymphoma Overview

Hodgkin's lymphoma (HL) is an uncommon hematological malignancy arising from mature B cells. It
Hodgkin's Lymphoma ... Hodgkin Lymphoma ... accounts for 10% of all ... • History of EBV ... Treatment • Early