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Leukemia, Lymphocytic, Chronic, B-Cell

"Leukemia, Lymphocytic, Chronic, B-Cell" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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A chronic leukemia characterized by abnormal B-lymphocytes and often generalized lymphadenopathy. In patients presenting predominately with blood and bone marrow involvement it is called chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL); in those predominately with enlarged lymph nodes it is called small lymphocytic lymphoma. These terms represent spectrums of the same disease.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Leukemia, Lymphocytic, Chronic, B-Cell" by people in this website by year, and whether "Leukemia, Lymphocytic, Chronic, B-Cell" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 12 publications over 8 distinct years, with a maximum of 3 publications in 2005
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