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Research Article| Volume 7, ISSUE 1, P199-248, March 1987

Electron Microscopy of Leukemias and Lymphomas

  • G. Richard Dickersin
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    Corresponding Author: Department of Pathology, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02114.
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    Associate Professor, Department of Pathology, Harvard Medical School, and Head, Diagnostic Electron Microscopy Unit, The James Homer Wright Laboratories of the Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
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DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/S0272-2712(18)30769-8
Electron Microscopy of Leukemias and Lymphomas
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      The applications of electron microscopy in the study of leukemias and lymphomas are reviewed, with particular attention directed to the ultrastructural differences between lymphocytic and myelocytic leukemia, large-cell lymphoma and “undifferentiated” carcinoma, and smallcell lymphocytic lesions and other small round-cell neoplasms. Also covered are the importance of electron microscopy in the diagnosis of promyelocytic and megakaryocytic leukemia, and the unique ultrastructural features of hairy-cell leukemia, malignant histiocytosis, and histiocytosis X.
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