Title: A rare finding of plasma cell leukaemia with hairy-cell morphology
Abstract:Plasma cell leukaemia (PCL) is a very rare and typically highly aggressive type of leukaemia. Prognosis is poor, with median survival below 6 months, and the disease is characterised by peripheral clo...Plasma cell leukaemia (PCL) is a very rare and typically highly aggressive type of leukaemia. Prognosis is poor, with median survival below 6 months, and the disease is characterised by peripheral clonal plasmacytosis of peripheral blood (>2×109/L PCs or PCs accounting for >20% of nucleated blood cells).1 Within this rare disease, an even rarer manifestation is the presence of circulating PCs with a villous or 'hairy' lymphocyte morphology. Very few cases of this variant PCL have been described in the literature.Read More