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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
3
pubmed:dateCreated
2003-3-20
pubmed:abstractText
This study was undertaken to determine the prognostic value of bone marrow histopathologic and molecular analyses in 53 patients with mycosis fungoides and 7 with Sézary syndrome. Bone marrow was involved in only 1 patient with Sézary syndrome, clinical stage IVA, before bone marrow biopsy. An ambiguous T-cell infiltrate was observed in 8 patients but was not associated with disease progression. The bone marrow specimen was normal in 51 patients. Monoclonality was detected in the skin specimen in 44 cases; an identical T-cell clone in the blood specimen was found in 21 of them and, in 16 of the 21 patients, in bone marrow specimens without histologic correlation. Multivariate analysis confirmed that clinical stage and detection by polymerase chain reaction of an identical T-cell clone in skin and blood specimens had an independent prognostic value. No further prognostic value was observed for the presence of a T-cell clone in bone marrow specimens. Our data do not support the need for bone marrow examination in patients with mycosis fungoides/Sézary syndrome.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
AIM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Mar
pubmed:issn
0002-9173
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
119
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
414-23
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:12645344-Adult, pubmed-meshheading:12645344-Aged, pubmed-meshheading:12645344-Aged, 80 and over, pubmed-meshheading:12645344-Bone Marrow Cells, pubmed-meshheading:12645344-Clone Cells, pubmed-meshheading:12645344-DNA, Neoplasm, pubmed-meshheading:12645344-Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel, pubmed-meshheading:12645344-Female, pubmed-meshheading:12645344-Gene Rearrangement, gamma-Chain T-Cell Antigen Receptor, pubmed-meshheading:12645344-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:12645344-Male, pubmed-meshheading:12645344-Middle Aged, pubmed-meshheading:12645344-Mycosis Fungoides, pubmed-meshheading:12645344-Polymerase Chain Reaction, pubmed-meshheading:12645344-Prognosis, pubmed-meshheading:12645344-Prospective Studies, pubmed-meshheading:12645344-Sezary Syndrome, pubmed-meshheading:12645344-Skin Neoplasms
pubmed:year
2003
pubmed:articleTitle
Bone marrow histopathologic and molecular staging in epidermotropic T-cell lymphomas.
pubmed:affiliation
Oncodermatology Unit, Dermatology Department, Saint-André University Hospital of Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't