Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia: Or something else? Differential Diagnosis

Blood, blood-forming organs-immune system (D50-D90).

  • Essential thrombocythemia (ET) – chronic myeloproliferative disorder (CMPE, CMPN) characterized by chronic elevation of platelets (thrombocytes).
  • Osteomyelofibrosis (OMF) – myeloproliferative syndrome; represents a progressive disease of the bone marrow.
  • Polycythaemia vera – pathological multiplication of blood cells (particularly affected are: especially erythrocytes/red blood cells, to a lesser extent also platelets (blood platelets) and leukocytes/white blood cells); prickly itching after contact with water (aquagenic pruritus).
  • Reactive leukocytosis in infections or rheumatic diseases.

Neoplasms – tumor diseases (C00-D48).

  • Other forms of leukemia