ICD-11 classes
03 Diseases of the blood or blood-forming organs
Neoplasms of haematopoietic or lymphoid tissues
Mature B-cell neoplasms
2A81 — Diffuse large B-cell lymphomas
2A81.8 — ALK-positive large B-cell lymphoma
ICD-11 2A81.8 — ALK-positive large B-cell lymphoma
A usually aggressive large B-cell lymphoma characterised by the presence of monomorphic immunoblast-like neoplastic B-lymphocytes in a sinusoidal growth pattern. The neoplastic B-lymphocytes express the ALK kinase but they lack the 2; 5 translocation.
The diagnosis includes nothing.
The diagnosis excludes nothing.
It has no clarifying diagnoses.
The diagnosis is coded elsewhere: