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[Changes in immunologic phenotype of cells in hairy cell leukemia]
Gematologiia I Transfuziologiia
|October 1, 1990
Abstract:
A case of hairy-cell leukemia (HCL) has been described in which the cells of the pathological clone in the course of time lost their surface immunoglobulins and retained membrane markers associated with the T-lymphoid series. It has been suggested that this change in the immunological phenotype of the cells may lead to an erroneous diagnosis of T-cell HCL.
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