[Diagnosis and therapy of acute leukemia in adults]

Apart from the most essential aspects of the diagnosis and differential diagnosis of acute leukaemias concerning the early diagnosis of leukaemias the author deals with the so-called praeleukaemia. On the basis of a survey of international literature the modern polychemotherapy and its successes are characterized as well as the necessary supportive haemotherapy) are dealt with. Despite the improved frequency of remissions the survival time of acute leukaemias could only little be prolonged, that of the first remission could not be prolonged. Perhaps it is possible by an in future improved immunotherapy and by allogenic transplantation of the bone-marrow after supralethal total body irradiation to set new measures in the treatment of acute leukaemias.