Marrow histomorphology and clinical staging of chronic lymphocytic leukemia--a rare disease in India: experience with 26 cases.
Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia is a relatively uncommon hemopoietic malignancy in the Indian subcontinent. We have made an attempt to correlate the morphology of the marrow with staging and clinical course of the disease in 26 cases. Four out of 6 cases in Stage A showed a nodular/interstitial marrow pattern, while 18 out of 20 cases of stage B and C demonstrated a mixed/diffuse involvement of marrow. Cases showing a nodular/interstitial pattern had a relatively benign clinical course even without chemotherapy, while patients with diffuse/mixed marrow pattern required chemotherapy. Trephine histological pattern was found to be a good prognosticator and was useful in segregating cases requiring chemotherapy from those which do not.
Department of Pathology, Maulana Azad Medical College, New Delhi, India.
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D000368:Aged; D001853:Bone Marrow / Q000473:pathology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007194:India; D015451:Leukemia, Lymphocytic, Chronic, B-Cell / Q000473:pathology*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009367:Neoplasm Staging