Leukemia

Leukemia is a disease also known as blood cancer, acute leukemia or blood-forming organs (blood, spleen, lymph nodes, bone marrow). It is characterized by excessive production of precursors of white blood cells (“babies” white blood cells) in bone marrow and blood (see blood test).

The term refers paraleucémique a condition similar to leukemia.

The term leukemoid means an anomaly in the blood that is to say the number of blood cells that they are white or red, however, and likely to evoke leukemia. Unlike with the leukemia itself, the term designates a leukemoid disease that is caused by another disease as leukemia.

In hematology (specialty on blood diseases), a leukemoid reaction is likely to appear during certain conditions (non-exhaustive list):
Infection.
Metastasis of cancer of the bone marrow.
Rickets.
Trisomy 21

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