Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemias/Lymphomas
ALLs
- Type
- Precursor B (pre-B)
ALL
- Childhood
- Peaks age of 3
- Bone marrow pre-B cell great
- Acute "Leukemias"
- Precursor T (pre-T)
ALL
- Adolescent males
- Age when thymus is maximal size
- Thymic "Lymphomas"
- Morphology
- Marrow is Hypercellular
- Macrophages ingesting apoptotic tumor cells
- "Starry Sky" appearence
- Similar morphology AML
- Lymphoblasts are MPO Negative and
PAS Positive
- Immunophenotype
- 95% TdT Positive
- pre-B ALL >> CD19
- pre-T ALL >> CD1a
- Molecular Pathogenesis
- Hyperploidy (>50 chromosomes)
- NOTCH1 >> 70%T-ALLs
- PAX5 >> B-ALLs
- Clinical Features
- AML is clinically very similar
- Accumulation of neoplastic "blasts" in bone marrow
- Supresses normal hematopoiesis by physical
crowding ...
- Abrupt stormy onset
- Depression of marrow function
- Bone pain
- CNS manifestations
- Prognosis
- with aggressive chemotherapy
- 95% of children with complete remission
- 75-85%are cured
- only 35-40% of adults are cured
- Causes of Bad Prognosis
- age under 2
- strong association with MLL gene translocations
- presentation in adolescence
- Presence of Philadelphia chromosome, t(9;22)