B-cell prolymphocytic leukemia differential diagnosis
Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Qurrat-ul-ain Abid, M.D.[2], Carlos A Lopez, M.D. [3]
Overview
B-cell prolymphocytic leukemia must be differentiated from other diseases such as T-cell prolymphocytic leukemia, chronic lymphocytic leukemia, and hairy cell leukemia.
Differential diagnosis
Other conditions resembling B-cell prolymphocytic leukemia are:[1]
- Hairy cell leukemia
- Waldenström macroglobulinemia
- T-cell prolymphocytic leukemia
- Chronic lymphocytic leukemia
- Mantle cell lymphoma
- Lymphoplasmacytic lymphoma
- Hairy cell leukemia
- Splenic marginal zone lymphoma
References
- ↑ Nakashima H, Saito B, Ariizumi H, Matsuda I, Nakamaki T, Tomoyasu S (December 2008). “Splenic irradiation as a successful treatment for an elderly patient with B-cell prolymphocytic leukemia”. Rinsho Ketsueki. 49 (12): 1619–22. doi:10.11406/rinketsu.49.1619. PMID 19110524.
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