| content | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Lymphoid leukemia Classification and external resources |
|
| ICD-10 | C91. |
|---|---|
| ICD-9 | 204 |
| MeSH | D007945 |
Lymphoid leukemia (or lymphocytic leukemia) is a type of leukemia affecting circulating cells of lymphoid origin. This is in contrast to lymphoma, which is a solid tumor of lymphoid cells.[1]
Classification
Historically, they have been most commonly divided by the stage of maturation at which the clonal (neoplastic) lymphoid population stopped maturing:
However, the influential WHO Classification (published in 2001) emphasized a greater emphasis on cell lineage. To this end, lymphoid leukemias can also be divided by the type of cells affected:
References
- ^ Parham, Peter (2005). The immune system. New York: Garland Science, 414. ISBN 0-8153-4093-1.
 |
This disease article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
