Related Adjectives and Terms |
Malignant lymphoma (ML) |
an umbrella term covering both Hodgkin lymphoma
and non-Hodgkin lymphoma |
Hodgkin Lymphoma |
cell types: nodular sclerosing (NS), lymphocyte predominant (LP), lymphocyte
depletion (LD), and mixed cellularity (MC) |
Non-Hodgkin
Lymphoma (NHL) |
about three times more common than HD; cell types nodular or diffuse;classifications
lymphocytic (well-differentiated and poorly differentiated); histiocytic;
mixed lymphocytic and histiocytic; undifferentiated. (See Morphology
section for more complete information.) |
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Microglioma |
an intracranial tumor of microglial cell origin similar to reticulum
cell sarcoma |
Mycosis fungoides |
malignant lymphoma arising in the skin; T-cell origin; spreads to viscera |
Sezary syndrome
|
mycosis fungoides
with malignant lymphocytes in the peripheral blood |
Brill Symmers Disease |
an infrequently used term for giant follicular lymphoma
(a well-differentiated small lymphocytic lymphoma) |