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  2. Leukoencephalopathy with vanishing white matter - Wikipedia

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    The MRI of patients with VWM shows a well defined leukodystrophy. These MRIs display reversal of signal intensity of the white matter in the brain. Recovery sequences and holes in the white matter are also visible. [4] Over time, the MRI is excellent at showing rarefaction and cystic degeneration of the white matter as it is replaced by fluid.

  3. Leukodystrophy - Wikipedia

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    While the disease is fatal, the age of onset is a key factor, as infants have a typical life expectancy of 2–8 years, while adults typically live more than a decade after onset. Treatment options are limited, although hematopoietic stem cell transplantations using bone marrow or cord blood seem to help in certain leukodystrophy types, while ...

  4. Leukoencephalopathy - Wikipedia

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    Leukoencephalopathy with vanishing white matter; Leukoencephalopathy with neuroaxonal spheroids; Reversible posterior leukoencephalopathy syndrome; Megalencephalic leukoencephalopathy with subcortical cysts. It can also refer to gene MLC1 or Megalencephalic leukoencephalopathy with subcortical cysts 1, a human gene related to the former disease.

  5. Leukemia - Wikipedia

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    A type of leukemia is the second most common form of cancer in infants (under the age of 12 months) and the most common form of cancer in older children. [83] Boys are somewhat more likely to develop leukemia than girls, and white American children are almost twice as likely to develop leukemia than black American children. [83]

  6. Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy - Wikipedia

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    PML is diagnosed in a patient with a progressive course of the disease, finding JC virus DNA in spinal fluid together with consistent white-matter lesions on brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI); alternatively, a brain biopsy is diagnostic [1] when the typical histopathology of demyelination, bizarre astrocytes, and enlarged oligodendroglial ...

  7. Chronic lymphocytic leukemia - Wikipedia

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    Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) is a type of cancer that affects the blood and bone marrow. [8] [9] In CLL, the bone marrow makes too many lymphocytes, which are a type of white blood cell. [8] [9] In patients with CLL, B cell lymphocytes can begin to collect in their blood, spleen, lymph nodes, and bone marrow.

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