See Also: Adult T-cell leukaemia(medicine)
Adult T-cell lymphoma(health)
Adult stem cell(health)
Adult T-cell leukemia(health)
adult T-cell lymphoma(medicine)
B-cell leukaemia(medicine)
leukaemia, hairy cell(medicine)
stem cell leukaemia(medicine)
mature cell leukaemia(medicine)
leukaemia, masT-cell(medicine)

Adult T-cell leukaemia (medicine)


adult T-cell leukaemia
Lymph nodes show a mixture of small and large atypical cells which are polymorphic and express nuclear pleiomorphism. Adult T-cell leukaemia is caused by HTLV-1 and is rare in the US and Europe but common in Japan. Tumour cells express CD2, CD3, CD5 and lack CD7. The most common chromosome change reported in adult T-cell leukaemia is presence of the 14q + marker