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Post-splenectomy lymphocytosis
S Juneja1, E Januszewicz, M Wolf
1Haematology Department, Peter MacCallum Cancer Institute, Melbourne, Australia.
Clinical and Laboratory Haematology
|December 1, 1995
Abstract:
We describe post-splenectomy lymphocytosis (PSL) in 23 patients, a majority (20/23) of whom have undergone splenectomy as a staging procedure for Hodgkin's disease. The absolute lymphocyte count ranged from 4.0 to 8.7 x 10(9)/l. The lymphocytosis was noted 4-242 (median 70) months after splenectomy and persisted almost unchanged in most patients on prolonged follow up (median 50 months). Immunophenotyping of the lymphocytes revealed no monoclonal B cell population.