Rare Hematological Malignancies

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Ansell, Stephen M. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2008.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Hematology.; Oncology.; Medicine & Public Health.

Many comprehensive text books have been written about the common hematologic malignancies. However, every practicing hematologist/oncologist or primary care physician intermittently encounters patients with uncommon or rare hematologic malignancies. Information concerning these diseases, and particu...

Table of Contents:

• Polycythemia Vera and Other Polycythemia Syndromes
• Primary Myelofi brosis
• Essential Thrombocythemia
• Chronic Eosinophilic Leukemia/ Hypereosinophilic Syndrome
• Chronic Myelomonocytic Leukemia
• The 5q– Syndrome
• Rare Acute Leukemias
• Hairy Cell Leukemia
• Waldenstrom's Macrogloblinemia/ Lymphoplasmacytic Lymphoma
• Rare B-cell Lymphomas: Primary Mediastinal, Intravascular, and Primary Effusion Lymphoma
• Lymphomatoid Granulomatosis
• Posttransplant Lymphoproliferative Disorders
• Castleman Disease
• Rare T-Cell Lymphomas
• CD30+ Diseases: Anaplastic Large-Cell Lymphoma and Lymphomatoid Papulosis
• Nodular Lymphocyte Predominant Hodgkin's Lymphoma
• Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis
• Systemic Mastocytosis.