This case
appeared on Facebook this morning. “Question
is Cll or Prolymphocytic leukemia?? Any ideas”.
At the risk
of appearing sarcastic my first idea was to improve the English…
Reading the
comments there were as many opinions as there were people to offer them. For
myself it has been my experience that automated analysers are good at
identifying lymphoid cells. However this device has found a monocyte count of 50
x 109 cells /l (converting
units to what I am used to!). Those would be myeloid cells. Several people
had said flow cytometry would be useful here. I’d have to agree…
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