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Leukaemia
-“White blood” – leucos/aemia
-1827 Alfred Velpeau
63 year old florist, fever, weakness, urinary stones, hepatosplenomegaly
Blood “like gruel”
-1845 JH Bennett – patients with enlarged spleens and changes in the colour of the blood – “Leucocythaemia”
-1856 Virchow observed the white cells with a microscope – “Leukaemia”
Acute Leukaemia
=Rapidly progressive
=Proliferation of primitive “blast” cells
=Acute myeloblastic (myeloid) leukaemia
“Acute non-lymphoblastic leukaemia”
=Acute lymphoblastic leukaemia
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