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WHO classification of haematolymphoid tumours, fifth edition: lymphoid neoplasms
The 2022 World Health Organization classification of lymphomas and lymphoid leukaemias, the reference for how these diseases are named, defined and separated.
Overview
Summary of the fifth-edition WHO classification of lymphoid neoplasms, reorganising B-cell and T-cell lymphomas, plasma cell neoplasms and lymphoid leukaemias with updated entities, new genetically defined subtypes and revised terminology.
GuidelineChanged practice
Authors
Alaggio R, Amador C, Anagnostopoulos I, et al.
Published
Leukemia, 2022
What it means
Every lymphoma diagnosis on this site refers to an entity in this classification or the parallel International Consensus Classification.
Caveats
- Coexists with the 2022 International Consensus Classification, which differs in some entity names.