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Posts from August 2010

Follow-up to “An unfortunate case”

Thanks to the readers who responded with the correct diagnosis to last week’s case!  I’ve also presented this case at our weekly clinical pathology conference and I’ve found it extremely interesting and educational. This was indeed a case of hepatosplenic T-cell lymphoma (HSTL), gamma-delta type.  Characteristically, lymphadenopathy was absent and there was no peripheral involvement [...]

An unfortunate case

It’s been a while since I posted an interesting case, but here’s one that I saw in follow-up during my flow cytometry month. The patient is a 44 yo M with a history of end-stage renal disease secondary to hypertensive nephropathy who was awaiting transplant > 2 years and undergoing peritoneal dialysis.  Fatigue and anemia [...]