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How would you qualify and treat a patient with neutropenia, anemia, and abnormal NK cell population with normal trilineage marrow maturation?

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Medical Oncology · David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
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I would run a molecular test to confirm that the clonality does not show a CD8-positive clone, as that is more common in LGL. The findings of a clonal NK population by flow cytometry would be enough, in the setting of neutropenia and anemia, to consider a diagnosis of NK cell LGL.

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