This highly illustrated, diagnostic guidebook provides a single comprehensive source of essential information to enable non-specialists to diagnose lymph node and related diseases with confidence. The text is didactic and practical, covering reactive as well as malignant conditions. Diagnosis of Lymphoproliferative Diseases approaches the disorders based on the WHO classification and is edited by members of the WHO panel for the classification of lymphomas. This second edition contains over 1000 high quality, digitised colour images and tables of essential criteria for each diagnosis. New features include: Full discussion of immunostaining, the core of modern diagnosis Variant forms and technical issues This authoritative guide is an essential reference for haematologists, haematopathologists, general pathologists, diagnostic histopathologists and oncologists.
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Preface, vi Abbreviations, vii 1 General Introduction, 1 2 Reactive and Infective conditions, 20 3 An Introduction to Lymphoma Diagnosis, 59 4 B-cell Lymphoblastic Leukaemia/Lymphoma, 63 5 T-cell Lymphoblastic Lymphoma/Leukaemia, 69 6 B-cell Chronic Lymphocytic Leukaemia, 75 7 Splenic B-cell Marginal Zone Lymphoma, 81 8 Hairy Cell Leukaemia, 86 9 Lymphoplasmacytic Lymphoma, 92 10 Plasmacytoma/Myeloma, 96 11 Marginal Zone B-cell Lymphoma (Extranodal Malt and Nodal Types) and Extranodal Malt Lymphoma, 100 12 Follicular Lymphoma, 108 13 Mantle Cell Lymphoma, 121 14 Diffuse Large B-cell Lymphoma, 134 15 Burkitt Lymphoma, 155 16 T-cell Prolymphocytic Leukaemia, 161 17 T-cell Large Granular Lymphocytic Leukaemia and Aggressive NK-cell Leukaemia, 164 18 Adult T-cell Lymphoma/Leukaemia, 169 19 Extranodal NK/T-cell Lymphomas: Nasal Type, 172 20 Enteropathy-associated T-cell Lymphoma, 178 21 Hepatosplenic T-cell Lymphoma, 182 22 Subcutaneous Panniculitis-like T-cell Lymphoma and Primary Cutaneous gamma/delta T-cell Lymphoma, 185 23 Mycosis Fungoides/Sezary Syndrome, 189 24 Peripheral T-cell Lymphoma, 194 25 Angioimmunoblastic T-cell Lymphoma, 202 26 Anaplastic Large-cell Lymphoma, 208 27 Hodgkin Lymphoma, 220 28 Immunodefi ciency-associated Lymphoproliferative Disorders, 242 29 Histiocytic Sarcoma, 249 30 Follicular Dendritic Cell Proliferations and Related Entities, 255 31 Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis, 261 32 Myeloid Leukaemias (Myeloid Sarcoma), 265 Index, 268
