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B-prolymphocytic leukemia: Is it time to retire this entity? Ann Diagn Pathol 2021; 54:151790. [PMID: 34293709 DOI: 10.1016/j.anndiagpath.2021.151790] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/07/2021] [Accepted: 07/11/2021] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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B-prolymphocytic leukemia (B-PLL) is included as a distinct entity in the current World Health Organization classification of hematolymphoid neoplasms. However, the diagnosis of B-PLL has presented several challenges since its conception, and over the past decades investigations of B-PLL have revealed substantial biologic and molecular heterogeneity. These data have shown that many B-PLL cases present many similarities with other types of small B-cell lymphomas, and that small B-cell lymphomas can undergo prolymphocytoid transformation. As a result, the frequency of B-PLL has markedly decreased, and currently B-PLL is a very rare entity. Most recent studies focused on B-PLL cases have been conducted on limited cohorts, precluding robust conclusions. In this article, we provide a concise historical review of B-PLL and describe the diagnostic and clinical challenges associated with establishing this diagnosis. We also argue that cases currently classified as B-PLL are unlikely to be a unique biologic entity, but rather represent a state of morphologic transformation characterized by many prolymphocytes that is shared by various types of small B-cell lymphoma.
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Geyer JT, Prakash S, Orazi A. B-cell neoplasms and Hodgkin lymphoma in the spleen. Semin Diagn Pathol 2020; 38:125-134. [PMID: 32839024 DOI: 10.1053/j.semdp.2020.08.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/19/2020] [Revised: 07/20/2020] [Accepted: 08/06/2020] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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B-cell lymphoma of spleen may be primary (most commonly splenic diffuse large B-cell lymphoma) or secondary (typically low-grade non-Hodgkin lymphoma). Depending on the specific lymphoma subtype, there may be a predominantly white pulp pattern of involvement, a predominantly red pulp pattern or a focal nodular pattern. Splenectomy is the ideal specimen for a multiparametric integrative diagnosis of splenic lymphoma, as it allows for a combined study of morphology, immunohistology, flow cytometry, cytogenetics, and molecular genetic techniques. This review article describes the clinicopathologic characteristics of all the relevant B-cell neoplasms that may be encountered in a splenic biopsy or a splenectomy specimen.
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- Julia T Geyer
- Weill Cornell Medicine, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, 525 E 68th Street, Starr Pavilion 715, New York, NY 10065, United States.
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- University of California San Francisco, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Box 0100, Parnassus Avenue, Room 569C, San Francisco, CA 94143, United States
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- Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, PL Foster School of Medicine, Department of Pathology, MSC 41022, 5001 El Paso Drive, El Paso, TX 79905, United States
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PURPOSE OF REVIEW We aimed to produce a comprehensive update on clinical and biological data regarding two rare lymphoid neoplasms, B and T prolymphocytic leukemias, and assess therapeutic management in the light of new molecular insights and the advent of targeted therapies. RECENT FINDINGS B cell prolymphocytic leukemia (B-PLL) diagnosis remains challenging in the absence of clear immunophenotypic or cytogenetic signature and overlap with mantle cell lymphoma. New molecular defects have been identified in T cell prolymphocytic leukemia (T-PLL), especially in the JAK STAT pathway. Like in chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), B-PLL treatment depends on the presence of TP53 dysfunction. In T-PLL, alemtuzumab still remains the standard of care. Allogeneic transplantation is the only curable option. Thanks to reduced intensity conditioning regimens, it has become accessible to a larger number of patients. PLL prognosis remains poor with conventional therapies. However, great advances in the understanding of both T- and B-PLL pathogenesis lead to promising new therapeutic agents.
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Sandes AF, de Lourdes Chauffaille M, Oliveira CRMC, Maekawa Y, Tamashiro N, Takao TT, Ritter EC, Rizzatti EG. CD200 has an important role in the differential diagnosis of mature B-cell neoplasms by multiparameter flow cytometry. CYTOMETRY PART B-CLINICAL CYTOMETRY 2013; 86:98-105. [PMID: 24243815 DOI: 10.1002/cyto.b.21128] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/18/2013] [Revised: 07/19/2013] [Accepted: 08/09/2013] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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BACKGROUND Multiparameter flow cytometry is a useful tool for the diagnostic evaluation of mature B-cell neoplasms (MBN). Recently, it has been shown that CD200 may improve the distinction between chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL; CD200+) and mantle cell lymphoma (MCL; CD200-), but the role of CD200 expression in atypical CLL and other MBN remains to be established. METHODS To address this issue, we investigated the expression of CD200 in 159 consecutive cases of MBN. RESULTS CD200 was strongly expressed in CLL and was revealed to be an excellent marker to distinguish CLL from MCL, even in cases of atypical CLL. However, lack of CD200 was not an exclusive finding of MCL, being also observed in other MBNs. Furthermore, CD200 was highly expressed in hairy cell leukemia, being useful in the differential diagnosis of lymphomas with villous lymphocytes. Herein, we propose an algorithm to classify CD5+ MBNs based on the expression of CD200, CD11c, heavy chain immunoglobulins, and Matutes score. CONCLUSIONS These results expand the understanding of the CD200 expression in MBNs, giving further support for the inclusion of this marker in the routine investigation by flow cytometry.
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- Alex F Sandes
- Division of Hematology, Fleury Group, São Paulo, Brazil
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Splenic B-cell lymphomas with more than 55% prolymphocytes in blood: evidence for prolymphocytoid transformation. Hum Pathol 2012; 43:1828-38. [DOI: 10.1016/j.humpath.2012.01.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/07/2011] [Revised: 01/03/2012] [Accepted: 01/04/2012] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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The leukemias of mature B cells and T cells are a limited set of diseases in which blood and bone marrow are the primary sites of involvement. Although they may superficially resemble one another, they have distinct clinical and pathologic features and must be distinguished from one another. In this article, the major clinical, morphologic, phenotypic, and molecular genetic features of the mature B- and T-cell leukemias are reviewed, and differential diagnostic considerations are discussed.
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- Eric D Hsi
- Section of Hematopathology, Department of Clinical Pathology, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH 44195, USA.
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Ferrer A, Salaverria I, Bosch F, Villamor N, Rozman M, Beà S, Giné E, López-Guillermo A, Campo E, Montserrat E. Leukemic involvement is a common feature in mantle cell lymphoma. Cancer 2007; 109:2473-80. [PMID: 17477385 DOI: 10.1002/cncr.22715] [Citation(s) in RCA: 71] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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BACKGROUND The reported incidence of peripheral blood involvement in patients with mantle cell lymphoma (MCL) ranges from 13% to 77%. The aim of the study was to analyze the prevalence and the biologic and clinical significance of leukemic involvement in a series of patients with MCL. METHODS Leukemic expression was assessed by conventional morphology and flow cytometry (FC) in 48 patients. In addition, comparative genomic hybridization (CGH) was performed in 27 patients. RESULTS At diagnosis, 44 patients (92%) had evidence of leukemic expression by FC, including 8 patients (17%) without morphologically apparent leukemic involvement. Moreover, a lymphocyte count > or =5 x 10(9)/L was observed in 25 cases (52%). The most frequent imbalances detected by CGH were gains of 3q, 7p, 8q, 9q, 12q, and 13q, and losses of 13q, 1p, 9p, 11q, 10p, 17p, 6q, 8p, and 9q. Using a cutoff of 5 x 10(9)/L lymphocytes, cases with lymphocytosis more frequently presented with gains of 3q (P = .02), losses of 10p (P = .05), a low response rate (P = .04), and a short survival (P = .05). CONCLUSIONS Leukemic expression at diagnosis detected by FC was found to be highly frequent in this series of patients with MCL. Although morphologically apparent leukemic expression was not associated with specific chromosomal alterations detected by CGH, a lymphocyte count > or =5 x 10(9)/L was correlated with particular genetic abnormalities and a poor outcome.
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- Ana Ferrer
- Department of Hematology, Hospital Clinic, University of Barcelona, IDIBAPS, Barcelona, Spain
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Asplund SL, McKenna RW, Doolittle JE, Kroft SH. CD5-Positive B-Cell Neoplasms of Indeterminate Immunophenotype. Appl Immunohistochem Mol Morphol 2005; 13:311-7. [PMID: 16280659 DOI: 10.1097/01.pai.0000137363.36091.7e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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The flow cytometric classification of CD5-positive small B-cell neoplasms is dependent largely on the differential expression of CD23 and FMC-7. Occasional CD5-positive neoplasms with prominent co-expression of these antigens are encountered, precluding definitive immunophenotypic classification. The authors studied the clinicopathologic features of 26 neoplasms with this indeterminate immunophenotype. Available morphologic material was reviewed and analysis of CYCLIN D1 derangement was performed in selected cases by a combination of immunohistochemical, molecular, and cytogenetic techniques. Individual neoplasms were classified based on correlation of morphologic features and results of CYCLIN D1 studies. The neoplasms were classified into five categories: chronic lymphocytic leukemia (14 cases), "favor chronic lymphocytic leukemia" (3 cases), mantle cell lymphoma (3 cases), lymphoplasmacytic lymphoma (1 case), and unclassifiable (5 cases). Three of the unclassifiable neoplasms had morphologic features of mantle cell lymphoma, but CYCLIN D1 derangement could not be demonstrated. Neither relative expression of CD23 and FMC-7 nor intensity of CD20 or surface immunoglobulin expression was helpful in final classification. The authors conclude that CD5-positive small B-cell neoplasms with an indeterminate immunophenotype are a heterogeneous group, requiring additional studies for final classification. The majority (65%) appear to be chronic lymphocytic leukemia, with most of the remaining cases either definitively mantle cell lymphoma or unclassifiable.
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MESH Headings
- Adult
- Aged
- Aged, 80 and over
- Antigens, Neoplasm/biosynthesis
- CD5 Antigens/biosynthesis
- Female
- Glycoproteins/biosynthesis
- Humans
- Immunophenotyping
- Leukemia, Lymphocytic, Chronic, B-Cell/classification
- Leukemia, Lymphocytic, Chronic, B-Cell/immunology
- Leukemia, Lymphocytic, Chronic, B-Cell/pathology
- Lymphoma, Mantle-Cell/classification
- Lymphoma, Mantle-Cell/immunology
- Lymphoma, Mantle-Cell/pathology
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Receptors, IgE/biosynthesis
- Retrospective Studies
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- Sheryl L Asplund
- Department of Pathology, Hematopathology Division, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, 75390, USA
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Rajendran J, Gopal A, Durack L, Fisher D, Press O, Eary J. Comparison of Radiation Dose Estimation for Myeloablative Radioimmunotherapy for Relapsed or Recurrent Mantle Cell Lymphoma Using131I Tositumomab to That of Other Types of Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma. Cancer Biother Radiopharm 2004; 19:738-45. [PMID: 15665621 DOI: 10.1089/cbr.2004.19.738] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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UNLABELLED Patients with relapsed or refractory mantle cell lymphoma (MCL) demonstrate poor survival after standard treatment. Myeloablative radioimmunotherapy (RIT) using (131)I tositumomab (anti-CD20) has the ability to deliver specific radiation-absorbed dose to antigen-bearing tumor. We reviewed normal organ radiation- absorbed doses in MCL patients. METHODS Records of patients with MCL (n =25), who received myeloablative RIT between January 1996 and December 2003 were reviewed. Individual patient radiation dosimetry was performed on all patients after a trace-labeled infusion of (131)I tositumomab (mean = 348 MBq), to calculate the required amount of radioactivity for therapy, based on medical internal radiation dose (MIRD) schema. RESULTS Mean organ residence times (hour) corrected for computed tomography (CT) derived organ volumes for MCL, were as follows: Lungs: 9.0; Liver: 12.4; Kidneys: 1.7; Spleen: 2.17; Whole Body: 62.4 and mean radiation absorbed doses mGy/Mbq were: Lungs: 1.2; Liver: 1.1; Kidneys: 0.85; Spleen: 1.7; Whole Body: 0.21. This is similar to patients with other non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL). Patients received a mean activity of 21 GBq of (131)I (range, 11.5-41.4) for therapy estimated to deliver 25 Gy to the normal organ receiving the highest radiation-absorbed dose. CONCLUSION Myeloablative RIT using (131)I tositumomab results in normal organ radiation-absorbed doses similar to those in patients with other non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, and is suitable for treating patients with relapsed or refractory MCL.
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- Joseph Rajendran
- Department of Radiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA.
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Smith MD, Singleton TP, Balaraman S, Jaiyesimi I, O'Malley B, Al-Saadi A, Mattson JC. Case report: mantle cell lymphoma, prolymphocytoid variant, with leukostasis syndrome. Mod Pathol 2004; 17:879-83. [PMID: 15197401 DOI: 10.1038/modpathol.3800139] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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A 76-year-old man presented with leukostasis syndrome, including oculodynia, blurred vision, and visual field defects, due to mantle cell lymphoma, prolymphocytoid variant, with marked leukocytosis, 1227 x 10(9)/l. He had splenomegaly but no lymphadenopathy or hepatomegaly. The tumor cells were CD5+, CD19+, CD20+, FMC-7+, and kappa light chain restricted. Immunohistochemistry showed expression of p53 and of cyclin D1. Fluorescent in situ hybridization demonstrated t(11;14) with translocation between CYCLIN D1 and the immunoglobulin heavy-chain genes. The patient received leukapheresis and aggressive chemotherapy, but the leukocyte count remained above 100 x 10(9)/l. The patient's condition rapidly deteriorated with lymphomatous infiltration of his lungs and soft tissues, and he expired 6 months after diagnosis. While it is known that mantle cell lymphoma may have a leukemic phase, the degree of leukocytosis in this case exceeds that previously reported in the literature and resulted in a clinical syndrome of leukostasis.
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MESH Headings
- Aged
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 11/genetics
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 14/genetics
- Cyclin D1/analysis
- Fatal Outcome
- Humans
- Immunohistochemistry
- In Situ Hybridization, Fluorescence
- Leukemia, Prolymphocytic/complications
- Leukemia, Prolymphocytic/genetics
- Leukemia, Prolymphocytic/metabolism
- Leukocyte Count
- Leukostasis/blood
- Leukostasis/etiology
- Lymphoma, Mantle-Cell/complications
- Lymphoma, Mantle-Cell/genetics
- Lymphoma, Mantle-Cell/metabolism
- Male
- Translocation, Genetic
- Tumor Suppressor Protein p53/analysis
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- Marc D Smith
- 1Department of Clinical Pathology, Royal Oak, MI, USA
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The role of bone marrow examination in diagnosis and staging of patients with Hodgkin lymphoma, B-non-Hodgkin lymphoma, and T-non-Hodgkin lymphoma is reviewed. Optimal routine and specialized bone marrow examination techniques are discussed. The salient morphologic, immunophenotypic, and genetic features of mature and immature B, T neoplasms and classic Hodgkin lymphoma in bone marrow are delineated, along with recommendations to distinguish these overt neoplasms from non-neoplastic processes.
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- David Viswanatha
- Department of Pathology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131, USA
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Ruchlemer R, Parry-Jones N, Brito-Babapulle V, Attolico I, Wotherspoon AC, Matutes E, Catovsky D. B-prolymphocytic leukaemia with t(11;14) revisited: a splenomegalic form of mantle cell lymphoma evolving with leukaemia. Br J Haematol 2004; 125:330-6. [PMID: 15086413 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2141.2004.04913.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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We reviewed eight cases that were diagnosed before 1995 with B-prolymphocytic leukaemia (B-PLL) harbouring t(11;14)(q13;q32) and/or cyclin D1 staining. Thirteen B-PLL patients without t(11;14) were selected as controls. Peripheral blood, bone marrow and histological sections were re-examined without cytogenetic information. Final diagnosis was made using morphology, cytogenetics, immunophenotype and immunohistochemistry. Clinical characteristics were similar for both groups except for younger age, male predominance and extranodal involvement in cases with t(11;14). CD5 was more frequently positive in the t(11;14)+ group (80%) than in the t(11;14)- group (31%). Surface membrane immunoglobulin was strongly expressed by all t(11;14)+ cases, but only 45% of t(11;14)- cases. Histopathological and cytological review of cases with t(11;14) showed an infiltrate with a mixture of cells, some resembling prolymphocytes and others with mantle cell lymphoma (MCL) morphology. Blood films of cases with t(11;14) showed features suggestive of B-PLL in three, and in others, a mixture of cells resembling MCL and nucleolated ones; none corresponded to the blastoid form of MCL. We suggest that 'B-PLL' with t(11;14) may represent a splenomegalic form of MCL evolving with leukaemia. These cases illustrate the importance of tissue diagnosis with cyclin D1 staining and fluorescence in situ hybridization analysis in B-cell leukaemia with prolymphocytic features.
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MESH Headings
- Aged
- Biomarkers, Tumor/metabolism
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 11/genetics
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 14/genetics
- Cyclin D1/metabolism
- Diagnosis, Differential
- Female
- Humans
- In Situ Hybridization, Fluorescence
- Leukemia, B-Cell/diagnosis
- Leukemia, B-Cell/genetics
- Leukemia, B-Cell/pathology
- Leukemia, Prolymphocytic/diagnosis
- Leukemia, Prolymphocytic/genetics
- Leukemia, Prolymphocytic/pathology
- Lymphoma, Mantle-Cell/diagnosis
- Lymphoma, Mantle-Cell/pathology
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Neoplasm Proteins/metabolism
- Spleen/pathology
- Survival Analysis
- Translocation, Genetic
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- Rosa Ruchlemer
- Academic Department of Haematology and Cytogenetics, The Royal Marsden Hospital and Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK
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Hsi ED, Frater JL. Advances in the diagnosis and classification of chronic lymphoproliferative disorders. Cancer Treat Res 2004; 121:145-65. [PMID: 15217209 DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-7920-6_6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/30/2023]
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In this review, we have highlighted recent advances in chronic lymphoproliferative disorders that commonly involve the peripheral blood. As we have seen, our concepts of certain diseases are changing. Molecular genetic and immunophenotypic studies are allowing more precise characterization of CLL and defining important biologic markers that predict clinical behavior. Prolymphocytic leukemia is now more narrowly defined and its relationship to nucleolated variants of MCL is now apparent. With new reagents and techniques applied to problems such as identification of Sezary cells and T-cell monoclonality determination, our ability to diagnose, monitor, and provide prognostic information is improving. Insight into the biology of these diseases also may provide new therapeutic targets in the future.
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- Eric D Hsi
- Department of Clinical Pathology, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH, USA
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Nodit L, Bahler DW, Jacobs SA, Locker J, Swerdlow SH. Indolent mantle cell lymphoma with nodal involvement and mutated immunoglobulin heavy chain genes. Hum Pathol 2003; 34:1030-4. [PMID: 14608537 DOI: 10.1053/s0046-8177(03)00410-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 88] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Mantle cell lymphoma (MCL) is typically considered an aggressive but incurable neoplasm composed of cyclin D1+ monoclonal B-cells with a t(11;14)(q13;q32) and usually unmutated immunoglobulin (Ig) genes. Although it has been suggested that a more indolent leukemic disorder exists with the same phenotype and genotype but with mutated Ig genes, others have considered these cases to be variants of chronic lymphocytic leukemia. We present a case of an indolent MCL that was documented with cyclin D1 expression in a lymph node biopsy performed more than 12 years ago. The patient has peripheral blood involvement with a lymphocyte count in the reference range, variable thrombocytopenia, and minimal adenopathy but is otherwise well, never having received any antineoplastic therapy. Study of peripheral blood samples from 2002 revealed a CD5-variable B-cell monoclonal proliferation with a t(11;14)(q13;q32) plus other karyotypic abnormalities, positive fluorescence in situ hybridization studies for the CCND1/IgH translocation, and clonal Ig gene rearrangement with mutated Ig genes (95.7% homology to VH 4-31). The subtle but diagnostic lymph node biopsy in this case helps to further support that an indolent t(11;14) monoclonal lymphocytosis with mutated Ig genes can represent an MCL variant rather than chronic lymphocytic leukemia.
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MESH Headings
- Adult
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 11
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 14
- DNA, Neoplasm/analysis
- Female
- Gene Rearrangement, B-Lymphocyte, Heavy Chain/genetics
- Humans
- Immunoglobulin Heavy Chains/genetics
- Immunoglobulin Variable Region/genetics
- Karyotyping
- Lymph Nodes/pathology
- Lymphoma, Mantle-Cell/genetics
- Lymphoma, Mantle-Cell/immunology
- Lymphoma, Mantle-Cell/pathology
- Mutation
- Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Translocation, Genetic
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- Laurentia Nodit
- Department of Pathology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, PA, USA
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A subset of mantle cell lymphoma (MCL) tumors has blastoid morphology, and a number of morphologic variants of blastoid MCL have been described in the literature. In this report, we document the cytogenetic findings in 27 cases of blastoid MCL. Conventional cytogenetic analyses were performed on bone marrow aspirates involved by MCL from 27 patients. There were 14 men and 13 women with a median age of 63 years (range, 40-79 years). Diagnostic tissue biopsy and bone marrow specimens were reviewed, and cases were divided into 2 morphologic groups: classic (12 cases) and pleomorphic (15 cases), as defined in the World Health Organization classification. All tumors had an immunophenotype compatible with MCL, were positive for cyclin D1, and carried the t(11;14). Twenty-four cases had complex karyotypes with 3 or more chromosomal abnormalities in addition to the t(11;14). In classic blastoid MCL, abnormalities of chromosomes 13, 18, and 8 were most common. In pleomorphic blastoid MCL, abnormalities of chromosomes 13, 17, and 3 were most frequent. Chromosome 22 abnormalities were detected exclusively in the pleomorphic group. Tumors in which the neoplastic cells showed prominent nucleoli had a significantly higher frequency of chromosome 17 abnormalities (P = 0.03). We conclude that blastoid MCL tumors often show complex cytogenetic aberrations. Some abnormalities correlate with morphologic features, suggesting that morphologic variants of blastoid MCL may arise via different molecular pathways.
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- Joseph D Khoury
- Department of Hematopathology, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston 77030, USA
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Sun T, Nordberg ML, Cotelingam JD, Veillon DM, Ryder J. Fluorescence in situ hybridization: method of choice for a definitive diagnosis of mantle cell lymphoma. Am J Hematol 2003; 74:78-84. [PMID: 12949897 DOI: 10.1002/ajh.10356] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) using IGH/CCND1 probes was used to analyze 35 specimens including 27 paraffin sections, 3 bone marrow aspirates, and 5 peripheral blood smears. The 27 paraffin sections included 7 bone marrows, 10 lymph nodes, 3 spleens, 3 tonsils, 3 gastrointestinal biopsies, and 1 skin biopsy. Among these cases, 23 specimens were from 20 patients with mantle cell lymphoma (MCL) and 12 specimens were from 12 patients with non-MCL lymphomas/lymphoid hyperplasia. Specimens from all MCL patients showed positive results with FISH. In one patient, the archived paraffin sections were negative with FISH, but a fresh peripheral blood specimen showed a positive result. Negative results were obtained in all specimens from non-MCL cases. Flow cytometric analysis revealed that all cases of MCL showed CD19/CD5 staining, but the percentages of cells positive for CD23 and FMC-7 were variable, thus they cannot be depended upon for a definitive diagnosis of MCL. Immunohistochemical stains demonstrated positive staining for CD5 and CD20 and negative staining for CD23 in MCL cases but cyclin D1 was positive in only 10 of 13 MCL cases studied. Therefore, it appears that immunophenotyping alone is not sufficient to establish a definitive diagnosis of MCL. FISH should be routinely used when the diagnosis needs confirmation. FISH can be performed in a routine clinical laboratory, and it is applicable to archived material for retrospective studies. Other molecular cytogenetic techniques in comparison with FISH are discussed.
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- Tsieh Sun
- Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Service, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Denver, Colorado 80220, USA.
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Modern diagnosis of mature B- and T-cell leukemias requires integration of morphologic, immunophenotypic, and molecular genetic features. This integrative approach has allowed more precise definitions of specific disease entities. This in turn provides better information for clinicians to select proper therapy and determine prognosis. The characteristic pathologic features of these disorders are reviewed.
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MESH Headings
- Bone Marrow/immunology
- Bone Marrow/pathology
- Chromosome Aberrations
- Humans
- Immunophenotyping
- Killer Cells, Natural/immunology
- Killer Cells, Natural/pathology
- Leukemia, Lymphocytic, Chronic, B-Cell/genetics
- Leukemia, Lymphocytic, Chronic, B-Cell/immunology
- Leukemia, Lymphocytic, Chronic, B-Cell/pathology
- Leukemia, T-Cell/genetics
- Leukemia, T-Cell/immunology
- Leukemia, T-Cell/pathology
- Molecular Biology
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- Eric D Hsi
- Department of Clinical Pathology, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH 44195, USA.
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