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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 ... #Oncology #Diagnosis
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
She was diagnosed ... promyelocytic leukemia ... a bone marrow (BM ... hospitalization and treatment ... acute myeloid leukemia
Blood Disorders - Markers and Differential Diagnosis Algorithm 
Acute
 • Myloid (AML) - CD13, CD33, CD34,
and Differential Diagnosis ... Acute • Myloid (AML ... , Sudan Black, Auer ... rod • Lymphoid ... Proliferation • Lymphoid
Hyperviscosity Syndrome - Causes and Treatment

 - Waldenstrom macroglobulinemia (most common) / Plasmapheresis 
 - Multiple
Syndrome - Causes and Treatment ... Hydroxyurea - Leukemia ... hyperleukocytosis (AML ... - MH/CCF/CWRU EM ... #Differential #Diagnosis
Presentation of malignant disease in children 
Pre-school (<5 years old) 
 - Acute lymphoblastic leukaemia
lymphoblastic leukaemia ... - Non-Hodgkin lymphoma ... lymphoblastic leukaemia ... lymphoma - Malignant ... Peds #Pediatrics #Diagnosis
Causes of Diffuse Lymphadenopathy - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Reactive:
 - Systemic Inflammatory
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- Differential Diagnosis ... Infectious • EBV ... Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma ... • Hodgkin's Lymphoma ... #Differential #Diagnosis
Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia - Summary

Cancer affecting lymphocytes/Mature B cell neoplasm
 • Lymphocytes accumulate in large numbers
the non-Hodgkin lymphoma ... phenomenon CLL Diagnosis ... microglobulin Treatment ... Transform to DLBCL, PML ... #diagnosis #workup
Lymphomas and Lymphoproliferative Disorders - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Hodgkin Lymphoma ~40% - Characteristic For Reed-Sternberg (RS) Cells
- Differential Diagnosis ... Responsive to Treatment ... Treated Like Acute Leukemias ... growth, response to treatment ... relapse - Amy
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