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Case Reports
. 2018 Nov 10;7(1):24-26.
doi: 10.1002/ccr3.1528. eCollection 2019 Jan.

Clinically silent indolent T-cell leukemia

Clément Janot  1 , Joffrey Feriel  1   2 , Claire Borie  1   2 , Edouard Lefevre  3 , Annelise Bennaceur-Griscelli  1   2 , Ali G Turhan  1   2 , Cédric Aumont  1   2
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Case Reports

Clinically silent indolent T-cell leukemia

Clément Janot et al. Clin Case Rep. .

Abstract

The clinically silent, symptom-free T-cell prolymphocytic leukemia case that we report here confirms the major interest of the analysis of the blood smear as usual care of any emergent lymphocytosis. It also brings out the issue of the monitoring and follow-up of this uncommon presentation.

Keywords: Cellular hematology; T‐cell leukemia; T‐cell prolymphocytic leukemia; indolent; lymphoid neoplasms.

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Figure 1
(A) A microphotograph of the blood smear showing small lymphoid cells with dense chromatin. Their nucleoli and their cytoplasmic expansions suggested the hypothesis of a T‐prolymphocytic neoplasm. (B) Complex karyotype involving no less than six pairs of chromosomes, forming a typical profile of T‐PLL. (C) FISH analysis.
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