title: [Prolymphocytic leukaemia: a new clinical entity (author's transl)].
abstract: A 67-year-old woman, at first diagnosed to have acute lymphocytic leukaemia, developed all the characteristic signs of so-called prolymphocytic leukaemia, namely severe general symptoms of illness, marked hepatosplenomegaly in the absence of lymphadenopathy, extreme leukocytosis (at times more than 1000 x 10(9)/l). Prolymphocytic leukaemia is now considered to be an especially unfavourable form of chronic lymphocytic leukaemia.
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D001344:Autopsy; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006529:Hepatomegaly / Q000150:complications; D006801:Humans; D007945:Leukemia, Lymphoid / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D007958:Leukocyte Count; D008214:Lymphocytes; D013163:Splenomegaly / Q000150:complications
vernacular_title: Die prolymphozytäre Leukämie: eine neue klinische Entität. Ein kasuistischer Bericht mit Ubersicht über die Literatur.