Lymphoma synonyms

WHO	Rappaport	Kiel	Lukes-Collins	Working formulation	REAL	FAB
chronic lymphocytic leukaemia / small cell lymphoma	well-differentaited lymphocytic	CLL; immunocytoma, lymphoplasmacytoid type	small lymphocyte B, CLL	small lymphocytic, consistent with CLL	B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukaemia
B-cell prolymphocytic leukaemia		B-cell prolymphocytic leukaemia			B-cell prolymphocytic leukaemia
lymphoplasmacytic lymphoma / Waldenstrom's macroglobulinaemia	well-differentaited lymphocytic, plasmacytoid	immunocytoma, lympoplasmacytic type	plasmacytic-lymphocytic	small lymphocytic, plasmacytoid
splenic marginal zome lymphoma	well-differentaited lymphocytic		small lymphocytic	small lymphocytic		splenic lymphoma iwth circulating villous lymphocytes
hairy cell leukaemia	leukaemic reticuloendotheliosis
plasma cell myeloma	multiple myeloma, myelomatosis, medullary plasma cytoma, Kahler's disease
MALT-lymphoma	well-differentaited lymphocytic, plasmacytoid lymphocytic, poorly-differentaited lymphocytic	immunocytoma	lymphocytic, plasmacytic-lymphocytic, small cleaved cell	small lymphocytic
nodal marginal zone lymphoma	well-differentaited lymphocytic, poorly-differentaited lymphocytic, mixed lymphocytic-histiocytic	monocytoid B-cell	parafollicular B-cell	small lymphocytic, plasmacytoid; follicular or diffuse small cleaved cell; follicular or diffuse mixed small and large cell
follicular lymphoma	nodular poorly differentiated lymphocytic, mixed lymphocytic-histiocytic, histiocytic or undifferentiated	centroblastic/centrocytic follicular, follicular and diffuse, centroblastic, follicula	small cleaved, large cleaved, small noncleaved or large noncleaved follicular centre	follicular small cleaved, mixed, large or small noncleaved	follicle centre lymphoma, follicular
mantle cell lymphoma	intermediate or poorly differentiated lymphocutic lymphoma, diffuse or noudlar	centrocytic (mantle cell)	malignant lymphoma, diffuse, small cleaved cell type (rarely follicular, samll cleaved or diffuse mixed small adn large cell or large cell type)
diffuse large B cell lymphoma	diffuse histiocytic, diffuse mixed lymphocytic and histiocytic	centroblastic, B-immunoblastic, B-arge cell anaplastic	large cleaved follicle centre cell, large noncleaved follicle centre cell, B-immunoblastic	diffuse large cell, large cell immunoblastic, diffuse mixed small and large cell	diffuse large B-cell
mediastinal (thymic) large B cell lymphoma	large cell lymphoma of the mediastinum, primary mediastinal clear-cell lymphoma with sclerosis				primary mediastinal (thymic) large B cell lymphoma
intravascular large B-cell lymphoma		angio-endotheliotropic (intravascular) lymphoma	angiotropic large cell lymphoma		diffuse large B-cell lymphoma
primary effusion lymphoma	body cavity-based lymphoma
Burkitt lymphoma / leukaemia	undifferentiatd lymphoma, Burkitt type	Burkitt and Burkitt lymphoma with	small non-cleaved follicle centre cell	small non-cleaved cell, Burkitt type	Burkitt lymphoma	L3 ALL
lymphomatoid granulomatosis	angiocentric immunoproliferative lesion
WHO	Rappaport	Kiel	Lukes-Collins	Working formulation	REAL	FAB
T-cell prolymphocytic leukaemia		T-cell prolymphocytic leukaemia / T-cell chronic lymphocytic leukaemia	"Knobby" type of T-cell leukaemia		T-cell-prolymphocytic leukaemia / T-cell chronic lymphocytic leukaemia
T-cell large granular lymphocytic leukaemia	T-cell chronic lymphocytic leukaemia, Tg-lymphoproliferative disorder, proliferation of large granular lymphocytes, LGL leukaemia
aggressive NK cell leukaemia					large granular lymphocyte leukaemia, NK-cell type
adult T-cell leukaemia/lymphoma		T-cell lymphoma, small cell type pleomorphic medium and large cell type (HTLV-1+)	T-immunoblastic sarcoma		adult T-cell lymphoma/eukaemia (HTLV-1+)
extranodal NK/T cell lymphoma, nasal type	malignant midline reticulosis, polymorphous reticulosis, lethal midline granuloma, angiocentric immunoproliferative lesion				angiocentric T-cell lymphoma
enteropathy-type T-cell lymphoma					intestinal T-cell lymphoma
hepatosplenic T-cell lymphoma					hepatosplenic gd T-cell lymphoma
subcutanous panniculitis-like T-cell lymphoma					subcutanous panniculitic T-cell lymphoma
blastic NK cell lymphoma	lymphoblastoid variant of NK-cell lymphoma, monomorphic NK-cell lymphoma
mycosis fungoides Sézary syndrome		small cell, cerebriform	cerebriform T-cell	mycosis fungoides	mycosis fungoides
Primary cutaneous anaplastic large cell lymphoma		anaplastic large cell			primary cutaneous anaplastic large cell (CD30+)
angioimmmunoblastic T-cell lymphoma		AILD-type T-cell lymphoma	immunoblastic lymphadenopathy		angioimmmunoblastic T-cell lymphoma
peripheral T-cell lymphoma, unspecified			T-immunoblastic		peripheral T-cell lymphoma, unspecified
anaplastic large cell lymphoma		large cell anaplastic			anaplastic large cell lymphoma, T/null-cell type

References

World Health Organization Classification of Tumours, Tumours of the haematopoietic and lymphoid tissues, IARC Press 2001.

This page last revised 17.12.2002.

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