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Leukopenia
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Neutropenia/ Agranulocytosis
- Treatment: Removal of offending drug
- Most myelotoxic drugs affect all marrow elements
- Accelerated removal or destruction of neutrophils
- Inadequate or ineffective granulopoeisis
- Severe (Agranulocytosis): <500/uL
- Granulocytopenia- common
- Lymphopenias- less common
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Reactive Leukocytosis (infectious mononucleosis)
- Diagnosis: Positive heterophile reaction (monospot test)
- Impaired immunity can have disasterous consequences
- Occassionally, reed-Sternberg like cells
- Differential: malignant Hodgkin's lymphoma
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X-linked lymphoproliferative syndrome
- EBV Infection; 50% boys have infection and die
- Kissing disease- spread orally
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Reactive Lymphadentis
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Acute nonspecific
- nodes tender, abscess: fluctuant
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Chronic Nonspecific
- follicular hyperplasia (most common)
- paracortical hyperplasia
- Sinus histiocytosis
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Cat Scratch Disease
- Self-limited lymphadenitis
- Bacterium Bartonella henselae
- initially, sarcoid-like (hard) granulomas
- Irregular stellate necrotizing granulomas