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Table 3.

Characteristics of study patients

Diagnosis	Number of patients with diagnosis^a	Age years median (range)	Sex M/F	% patients with B symptoms at presentation	WCC × 10⁹/l median (range)
Diagnosis	Total = 132	Age years median (range)	Sex M/F	% patients with B symptoms at presentation	WCC × 10⁹/l median (range)
Lymphoproliferative disorders	61	58 (12–80)	25:36	93	18.4 (1.5–UR)
Other^b or unknown diagnoses	42	33.5 (12–83)	25:17	83	7.4 (2–240)
Splenomegaly—unknown cause	29	35 (12–70)	13:16	93	3.3 (1–26.1)

UR unrecordable

^aEighteen patients had no/inadequate trephine biopsy and have been excluded from the table

^bAcute myeloid leukaemia, refractory anaemia with excess blasts, monoclonal gammopathy of uncertain significance, tuberculosis, Rosai Dorfman, other malignancy, reactive marrow