Chronic lymphocytic leukemia/small lymphocytic lymphoma with Hodgkin Reed-Sternberg-like cells and subsequent transformation to EBV-positive diffuse large B-cell lymphoma - A case report and literature review

• Main Authors: Jeffrey John Cannatella (Author), Khoan Vu (Author), Zhongxia Qi (Author), Jessica Van Ziffle (Author), Linlin Wang (Author), Lawrence D Kaplan (Author), Sonam Prakash (Author), Yi Xie (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2020-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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A subset of chronic lymphocytic leukemia/small lymphocytic lymphoma (CLL/SLL) patients develop Richter transformation (RT), classically resulting in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (RT-DLBCL); however, a minority of cases result in Hodgkin lymphoma (RT-HL). RT-HL can be of type 1 or 2. RT-HL1 consists...