Clinical Profile of Lymphoproliferative Disorders

Lymphoproliferative disorders are a set of disorders characterized by the abnormal proliferation of lymphocytes into a monoclonal lymphocytosis. It is observed due to varied clinical picture, many patients are misdiagnosed or treated as a disease like tuberculosis, systemic lupus erythematosus, etc for a long time before coming to correct diagnosis. Also, there is a lack of literature from India and paucity of published studies on lymphoproliferative disorders from India. Hence, this study was undertaken to evaluate the clinical profile and subtypes of lymphoproliferative disorders in cross-section of histologically proven lymphoma patients at a tertiary care center and to subtype various lymphoproliferative disorders using advanced techniques like ImmunoHistoChemistry (IHC) and Flow cytometry (FC).