Khalid Hassan, Khalid Hassan, Nadeem Ikram, Sajjid Hussain Shah, Syed Irfan Ahmad, Masood Ahmad Qureshi, Mumtaz Hassan.
Acute lymphoblastic leukaemia in adults.
J Pak Inst Med Sci Jan ;6(1,2):326-9.

In this paper, tive have presented a morphological breakup of 30 cases of Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL) in adults, according to French-American-British (FAB) criteria. ALL-L1 was the commonest FAB type (60%), followed by L2 (33.3%) and L3 (6.7%), respectively. The commonest clinical features in these patients were pallor (100%) ,fever (91%), hepatomegaly (75%), lymphadenopathy (63%), splenomegaly (57%) and bleeding manifestations (54%). Hemoglobin level ranged from 3.2 to 11.0 G/dl, with a mean +/- SD of 6.48 +/- 2.22 G/dl. Total white cell count ranged between 0.75 and 72.4 x 10e9/1, with a mean +/- SD of 13.85 +/- 13.06 x 10e9/1. Platelet count ranged from 5 to 135 x 10e9/1., with a mean +/- SD of 56 +/- 21.5x10e9/1.

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