Hairy cell leukemia (HCL)
Pathogenesis
Arises from postgerminal cells (?).
Clinical signs
- age: usually affects middle-aged and older adults (median is approx. 55 years of age)
- splenomegaly
- bicytopenia or pancytopenia
- prognosis: good, log-term remissions following chemotherapy or splenectomy
Histology
Intersticial infitration of the bone marrow, middle-sized cells
with round or kidney-shaped nuclei with diffuse chromatin without nucleoli,
abundant pale cytoplams with thin
hair-like projections.
Imunophenotype: B lineage (CD20 a CD79a+), DBA44+, CD103+, TRAP+