we studied the peripheral blood of 37 patients with hairy cell leukemia ( hcl ) prior to ( n = 24 ) or following ( n = 19 ) splenectomy , in the hemalog d multi-channel white cell differential counter , to investigate whether the apparatus could contribute to the ( early ) diagnosis of this entity and to the differential diagnosis of hcl from atypical hairy cell leukemia ( ahcl ; n = 9 ) , chronic lymphocytic leukemia ( cll ; n = 21 ) and leukemic non-hodgkin lymphoma of low-grade malignancy ( lnhl ; n = 19 ) .
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peripheral blood
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white cell