Name the main forms of leukopenia.
What is the pathogenesis of neutropenia (agranulocytosis)?
What are the bone marrow findings in neutropenia?
What are the clinical features of neutropenia?
Describe the causes of various forms of leukocytosis.
What is a leukemoid reaction, and how does it differ from leukemia?
Discuss the clinical-pathologic features of acute lymphadenitis.
What are the histologic findings in chronic nonspecific lymphadenitis?
Name the major groups of WBC neoplasms.
Discuss the difference between leukemia and lymphoma.
How do lymphomas present clinically?
What is the basis for classifying NHLs according to the World Health Organization?
List the main groups of NHLs according to WHO.
What is the role of histopathology, bone marrow biopsy, immunohistochemistry, cytogenetics, and molecular biology techniques i
Are all lymphomas malignant?
Name the cell of origin of most NHLs.
Describe which anatomic parts of the lymph nodes are occupied by neoplastic T lymphocytes and which by B lymphocytes.
Why is the staging of NHL and HL important?
Which four pathologic entities account for the majority of lymphoid and plasmacellular neoplasms?
Name the two most common NHLs of childhood and adolescence.
List the key facts about ALL/LBL.
What is the peak age of incidence of ALL/LBL?
What are the common clinical features of ALL/LBL?
Discuss the prognosis of ALL/LBL.
List features of ALL/LBL associated with favorable and unfavorable prognosis.
What is chronic lymphocytic leukemia/small cell lymphocytic lymphoma?
Describe the pathologic features of CLL/SLL.
How does CLL/SLL present clinically?
Describe the clinical course and outcome of CLL/SLL.
What is follicular lymphoma?
How common is follicular lymphoma?
What is the role of the bcl-2 gene in the pathogenesis of follicular lymphoma?
What is the typical clinical course of follicular lymphoma, and why do most patients suffering from this disease die?
Describe the main pathologic features of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma.
What is the typical clinical course of DLBCL?
What is Burkitt lymphoma?
List the principal microscopic features of Burkitt lymphoma.
Does endemic Burkitt lymphoma differ from the nonendemic form of the disease?
What are the main characteristics of plasma cell neoplasms and related entities?
What are the main pathologic and clinical features of multiple myeloma?
How is multiple myeloma diagnosed?
What is Bence Jones proteinuria?
Name the most common complications and the most common causes of death in patients with multiple myeloma.
What is the prognosis of multiple myeloma?
What are the main pathologic and clinical features of lymphoplasmacytic lymphoma?
What is Waldenström macroglobulinemia?
List the main characteristics of peripheral T cell lymphoma, unspecified.
Which form of lymphoma occurs in Human T-Cell Leukemia Virus (HTLV)-1-infected people?
What are the common features and differences between mycosis fungoides and Sézary syndrome?
What is Hodgkin lymphoma (HL)?
List the main subtypes of Hodgkin lymphoma.
What are RS and lacunar cells?
Discuss how HL spreads and how the extent of spread is used for staging the disease.
Describe the typical presentation, clinical course, and prognosis of HL.
What are the clinical features that distinguish HL from NHL?
What is the common progenitor cell of all myeloid neoplasms?
What are the three broad categories of myeloid neoplasia?
Define acute myelogenous leukemia.
How common is AML, and whom does it affect most often?
How is AML classified?
How is AML diagnosed?
How does AML present clinically? List the most common complications.
Define myelodysplastic syndromes.
What are the two main forms of MDS?
What is the clinical course of a typical MDS?
Name four entities included under the name chronic MPDs?
What are the main characteristics of chronic MPDs?
What is CML?
What is the clinical course of CML?
Define PCV.
What are the morphologic characteristics, clinical course, and laboratory findings in PCV?
How is essential thrombocytosis diagnosed?
Describe the pathologic features of myelofibrosis and how the changes in the bone marrow are reflected in the peripheral blood