WBC disorders Flashcards
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malignant proliferation of cell native to lymphoid tissue
Lympomas
what are the precurosrs and derivatives of lympohomas
Lymphocytes
what might lymphomas invovled
Solid tissue
Marrow
Blodd
what are the types of Lymphomas
Hodgkin
non-hodgkin
Malignant proliferation of cell native to bone marrow which often spill inot blood
Leukemias
where can leukemias spread
Solid organs (liver and spleen)
what is a Lymphoma of a distinctive cell type(reed-sternberg cell)
Hodgkin lymphomea
where does Hodgkin lympohoma arise and spread
arise in SIngle lymph node to spread to invovle contiguous nodes
how can you cure hodgkin lymphoma
Chemo
Radio
when do people tend to get Hodgkin Lymphoma
Bimodel (2-3rd decade and then once at an age greater than 50)
how many new cases in 2017 of Hodgkin lymphoma
8,300
what is needed to diagnoses Hodgkin Lmyphoma
Lymph node biopsy to identigy Reed-sternberg cells in apropriate background
what do Reed-sternberg cells look like
Large with mirror image nuclei and prominent nucleoili
how much of the cells of the lymph node are malignant in the case of Hodgkin Lymphoma
less than 2%
what is the germinal center for Reed-sternberg cells
B lymphocyte
what virus is often found in a Reed-Sternberg cell
Epstein-Barr virus(70%)
what are the spread of idsease in Hodgkin Lymphoma
Lymph nodes
Spleen
Liver
Bone marrow
use of staging in Hodgkin Lymphoma
Determine treatment and prognosis
what is done to Stage Hodgkin lymphoma
Combo of clinical findings and imaging
what is low stage hodgkin lymphoma
Localized involvement
what is High stage Hodgkin lymphoma
Wide spread disease with distant of bone marrow involvement
statge 1 Hodgkin Lymphoma
Tumor in 1 anatomic region or 2 contiuous anatomic rgion on the same side of daiaphragm
stage 2 hodgkin lymphoma
Tumor in more than 2 anatomic regions or two non-contiguous regions on the same side of the diaphragm
Stage III Hodgkin Lymphoma
Tumor on both sides of the diaphragm
does no extend beyond lymph nodes, spleen or Waldeyer’s ring