"Leukemia, Hairy Cell" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A neoplastic disease of the lymphoreticular cells which is considered to be a rare type of chronic leukemia; it is characterized by an insidious onset, splenomegaly, anemia, granulocytopenia, thrombocytopenia, little or no lymphadenopathy, and the presence of "hairy" or "flagellated" cells in the blood and bone marrow.
| Descriptor ID |
D007943
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| MeSH Number(s) |
C04.557.337.415 C15.604.515.553 C20.683.515.517
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| Concept/Terms |
Leukemia, Hairy Cell- Leukemia, Hairy Cell
- Leukemic Reticuloendotheliosis
- Leukemic Reticuloendothelioses
- Reticuloendothelioses, Leukemic
- Reticuloendotheliosis, Leukemic
- Hairy Cell Leukemia
- Hairy Cell Leukemias
- Leukemias, Hairy Cell
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Leukemia, Hairy Cell" by people in Profiles.
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Localized bone disease as a presentation of hairy cell leukemia. Clin Adv Hematol Oncol. 2008 Apr; 6(4):290-4.
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Disseminated atypical mycobacterial infection in hairy-cell leukaemia. Lancet. 1978 Nov 11; 2(8098):1052-3.