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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
7
pubmed:dateCreated
2000-11-13
pubmed:abstractText
Six patients had blood and bone marrow manifestations characterized by the presence of morphologically immature or blastic B-lineage lymphoid cells expressing CD5 antigen. The median patient age was 70 years, and the male-to-female ratio was 5:1. The presence or degree of lymphadenopathy and splenomegaly was variable among this group at staging evaluation, although two patients did not have these features. One patient had an antecedent diagnosis of classical nodal mantle cell lymphoma, without prior morphologic blood or bone marrow involvement. Other patients lacked a history of underlying lymphoproliferative disorders. The median white blood cell count was 120 x 10(9)/L. Most patients had thrombocytopenia, whereas only one patient had neutropenia at presentation. Leukemic peripheral blood cells in these six cases were small to medium in size with fine or granular nuclear chromatin and small or inconspicuous nucleoli. The pattern of marrow involvement was interstitial or diffuse, with cells showing immature nuclear features resembling acute leukemia or blastic lymphoma. All tumors demonstrated a consistent immunophenotype of B-cell lineage, surface immunoglobulin positivity, and CD5 antigen expression. The progenitor cell-associated markers CD34 and TdT were not expressed, and CD23 antigen was either negative (three of four cases) or only weakly present (one of four cases). The presence of a karyotypic t(11;14)(q13;q32) was documented in one tumor, whereas two other cases had BCL-1 gene rearrangements by either polymerase chain reaction or Southern blot analysis. Cyclin D1 mRNA overexpression was noted in three of four cases tested. This patient group was characterized by very poor overall survival (median, 3 months; range, 0.5 to 6 months). The aggregate clinical, pathologic, and genetic data in these unusual cases are consistent with de novo or predominant leukemic presentations of blastic mantle cell lymphoma. Accurate diagnosis in such cases is greatly facilitated by cytogenetic studies or the demonstration of BCL-1/cyclin D1 abnormalities.
pubmed:commentsCorrections
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jul
pubmed:issn
0893-3952
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
13
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
825-33
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:10912944-Aged, pubmed-meshheading:10912944-Aged, 80 and over, pubmed-meshheading:10912944-Antigens, CD5, pubmed-meshheading:10912944-Bone Marrow, pubmed-meshheading:10912944-Burkitt Lymphoma, pubmed-meshheading:10912944-Cyclin D1, pubmed-meshheading:10912944-Cytogenetics, pubmed-meshheading:10912944-DNA, Neoplasm, pubmed-meshheading:10912944-DNA Primers, pubmed-meshheading:10912944-Diagnosis, Differential, pubmed-meshheading:10912944-Female, pubmed-meshheading:10912944-Gene Rearrangement, pubmed-meshheading:10912944-Genes, bcl-1, pubmed-meshheading:10912944-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:10912944-Immunoenzyme Techniques, pubmed-meshheading:10912944-Immunophenotyping, pubmed-meshheading:10912944-Lymphoma, Mantle-Cell, pubmed-meshheading:10912944-Male, pubmed-meshheading:10912944-Middle Aged, pubmed-meshheading:10912944-RNA, Messenger, pubmed-meshheading:10912944-Receptors, Antigen, B-Cell, pubmed-meshheading:10912944-Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction
pubmed:year
2000
pubmed:articleTitle
Blastic mantle cell leukemia: an unusual presentation of blastic mantle cell lymphoma.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Pathology, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, Albuquerque, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article