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Peter Maslak, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
This high-power view of the peripheral blood smear of a patient with adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma contains a characteristic cloverleaf, or "flower," cell. This malignant lymphoid cell has a pleomorphic nucleus with deeply basophilic cytoplasm. These cells typically express CD25 but lack CD7.
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