Encyclopedia > Lymphocytosis

  Article Content

Lymphocytosis

A lymphocytosis is an increase in the number of lymphocytes[?] in the blood.

This is common in acute viral infections, including glandular fever.

It may also be seen with intracellular bacterial[?] infections, such as in tuberculosis.

The malignant blood disease chronic lymphocytic leukaemia[?] can cause a massive lymphocytosis, as can other leukaemias.



All Wikipedia text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License

 
  Search Encyclopedia

Search over one million articles, find something about almost anything!
 
 
  
  Featured Article
Ludvika

... the total population of 26450, 13112 are male, and 13338 are female. The population density of the community is 18 inhabitants per km². External links Ludvika ...

 
 
 
This page was created in 34.4 ms