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== Additional Info == | == Additional Info == | ||
*Hairy cell leukemia is a rare, slow-growing cancer of the blood in which your bone marrow makes too many B cells (lymphocytes), a type of white blood cell that fights infection. These excess B cells are abnormal and look "hairy" under a microscope. | *Hairy cell leukemia is a rare, slow-growing cancer of the blood in which your bone marrow makes too many B cells (lymphocytes), a type of white blood cell that fights infection. These excess B cells are abnormal and look "hairy" under a microscope. | ||
*It is usually classified as a sub-type of chronic lymphoid leukemia. | |||
== Alternate ICD10s to consider coding instead == | == Alternate ICD10s to consider coding instead == | ||