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Three hundred seventeen patients with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL) (54 low grade, 180 intermediate grade, 76 high grade, and seven unclassified) treated with chemotherapy were evaluated for the presence of hematologic abnormalities at diagnostic staging. Anemia was present in 42%, leukopenia in 6%, thrombocytopenia in 13%, leukocytosis in 26%, and thrombocytosis in 14% at presentation. The presence of bone marrow involvement by lymphoma was more likely to be associated with leukopenia and thrombocytopenia than the absence of bone marrow involvement. Although anemia was slightly more common in patients with bone marrow lymphoma than in those without marrow lymphoma, the difference was not statistically significant. Hematologic parameters were similar for patients with B-cell or T-cell lymphoma. Evidence of bone marrow failure with multiple cytopenias was present in 26 patients (8%). Leukoerythroblastosis was present in 2%. Circulating lymphoma was present in 9.5%. Anemic patients had a shorter survival time than nonanemic patients, whether bone marrow was involved by lymphoma or not. Survival was not affected by the presence of leukopenia or mild leukocytosis, but, in patients without marrow lymphoma, leukocytosis with a leukocyte count greater than 20 x 10(9)/l was associated with short survival length. Thrombocytopenia was associated with short survival time only in patients with bone marrow involvement by lymphoma. Patients with multiple cytopenias or leukoerythroblastosis had short survival times, but the presence of circulating lymphoma did not alter survival when compared with other patients with bone marrow involvement by lymphoma. These data suggest that hematologic evaluation at the time of diagnostic staging of NHL provides useful prognostic information that may have therapeutic implications.
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PMID:Clinical significance of hematologic parameters in non-Hodgkin's lymphoma at diagnosis. 199 2

We describe a case of intestinal T-cell lymphoma which was histologically diagnosed of malignant histiocytosis of the intestine. A 47-year-old man was admitted to our hospital because of fever and generalized lymphadenopathy. Mild anemia, leukocytosis, positive CRP and a high level of LDH were noted. Pathological finding of the lymph node was compatible with dermatopathic lymphadenopathy with a slight increase in atypical lymphoid cells. At the 14th day after admission, he suffered from abdominal pain and was diagnosed as having perforative peritonitis. In laparotomy, the infiltration of histiocyte-like atypical cells were found around a site of small perforation of the terminal ileum. The findings were compatible with that of malignant histiocytosis of the intestine (MHI). He had recurrent perforations of the small intestine and died of peritonitis and sepsis at the 42nd day. Southern blot analysis of the biopsied lymph node showed TCR-beta gene rearrangement. Some patients diagnosed clinically and pathologically as having MHI may have a T-cell lymphoma like our case.
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PMID:[Intestinal T-cell lymphoma (so-called malignant histiocytosis of the intestine) complicated by multiple perforations]. 202 Jan 15

A 77-year-old man was admitted to our hospital, due to systemic lymph node swelling. Nine months before his admission, he had been given a right hemicolonectomy for a colon cancer, that had been followed by chemotherapy (MMC and Tegafur). Laboratory testing revealed these findings: RBC 217 x 10(4)/mm3, Hb 8.3 g/dl, haptoglobin less than 10 mg/dl, positive Coombs test, cold hemagglutinin titer, 1:512, and polyclonal hyper r-globulinemia. A biopsy of a lymph node specimen exhibited the histological appearance of an IBL-like T-cell lymphoma described by Shimoyama et al. Although treatment with prednisolone was started for autoimmune hemolytic anemia, the patient died of severe anemia two months after the appearance of his lymph node symptoms.
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PMID:[An autopsy study of immunoblastic lymphadenopathy (IBL)-like T-cell lymphoma in a patient previously treated with chemotherapy in colon cancer]. 249 73

A 56-year-old female was hospitalized in 1992, because of fever and lymphadenopathy. She had ileus due to aganglionosis of the intestine diagnosed in 1990. Blood tests disclosed anemia and thrombocytopenia. Peripheral blood smear demonstrated 69.5% abnormal cells and a T-cell origin was demonstrated on cell marker study by flow cytometry. Immunological examinations, including serum HTLV-1 antibody were negative. Lymph node biopsy revealed malignant lymphoma; diffuse large, immunoblastic. The clonality of the T-cell malignancy was shown by detecting rearrangement of T-cell receptor beta gene. A diagnosis of PTCL, high grade, immunoblastic, was made. The patient received various chemotherapeutic agents and achieved a short remission, then died 5 months after the diagnosis. The classification of T-cell lymphoma was established by Suchi and the Kiel classification. Many ATL/L cases have been reported in Japan before the above classification was affirmed, although there have been few reports of ATL/L-like diseases in which serum HTLV-1 antibodies were negative. The case reported here was HTLV-1 negative, although the patient was diagnosed as ATL/L-like disease, because the results of various laboratory examinations were similar to these of HTLV-1 positive cases. Characteristics of this case included a female patient and leukemic clinical features, because the gender preponderance of PTCL, high grade, immunoblastic is male and the clinical features of the disease are not usually leukemic. It was also characteristic that PTCL coexisted with aganglionosis of the intestine. Basic disturbances in the latter condition would be similar to aganglionic megacolon in which a possible aberrant immune mechanism was shown.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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PMID:[Peripheral T cell lymphoma (immunoblastic type, HTLV-1 negative) associated with aganglionosis of the intestine]. 802 97

A 75-year-old woman presented with anemia, lymphadenopathy, hepatomegaly and lingual tumor, but no constitutional symptoms. The laboratory data showed pancytopenia and polyclonal hypergammaglobulinemia. A bone marrow aspirate represented an apparent myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) feature, specifically, refractory anemia with excess of blasts. A lymph-node biopsy revealed the disappearance of normal architecture, small arborizing blood vessels, large lymphoid cells with prominent cytoplasm (so-called pale cells) and a clonal proliferation of T-lymphocytes. The patient was diagnosed as having MDS associated with immunoblastic lymphadenopathy (IBL)-like T-cell lymphoma. She was subsequently treated with cyclophosphamide, adriamycin, vincristine and prednisolone for lymphoma which successfully induced a remission of not only the T-cell lymphoma but also the MDS. The case suggested that MDS might be a paraneoplastic complication of IBL-like T-cell lymphoma.
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PMID:Myelodysplastic syndrome associated with immunoblastic lymphadenopathy-like T-cell lymphoma: simultaneous clinical improvement with chemotherapy. 815 57

We describe a case of a middle-aged women who presented with anemia and mild hepatosplenomegaly and who was found to have an unusual peripheral T-cell lymphoma with only subtle morphologically abnormal but mature-appearing cells noted in the blood and bone marrow. Less than 2 years after diagnosis the patient presented with an increasing white blood cell count to 26 x 10(9)/L, and numerous blasts were noted in the periphery. Flow cytometry studies showed cells with an unusual T-cell phenotype expressing the gamma delta T-cell receptor and restricted expression of the V delta 1 but not the V delta 2 protein, indicating the clonal nature of the proliferation. A clonal T-cell receptor gene rearrangement was seen with a V delta 1 probe. The patient died and was found at autopsy to have extensive hepatic sinusoidal infiltration by abnormal cells. The histopathologic, immunophenotypic, and molecular findings are those of "hepatosplenic T-cell lymphoma." In spite of the striking morphologic change during the course of the patient's disease the same phenotype and clonal rearrangement were found both at initial diagnosis and during terminal phase, indicating that this change represented a blast-like transformation of the patient's original lymphoproliferative disorder.
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PMID:Hepatosplenic T-cell lymphoma: an unusual case of a gamma delta T-cell lymphoma with a blast-like terminal transformation. 831 55

Three years ago, a 71-year-old female was admitted because of general lymphadenopathy. She had been on medication for hypothroidism, but had no history of pregnancy or blood transfusion. T-cell lymphoma was found. Since then, she has been treated with intermittent chemotherapy. The patient's LWa antigen was depressed during two relapses of the lymphoma and anti-LWa was detected simultaneously on both occasions. When she entered remission after therapy, her LW phenotype converted from LW(a-) to LW(a+), and this was accompanied by the disappearance of anti-LWa. This suggests that LW(a-) was a transient phenotype. In the first relapse, a total of 8 units of D- LW(a+) packed red cells and 20 units of platelets were transfused during 1 month without any haemolytic reaction. In these relapses, nonhaemolytic anaemia, hyper-gamma-globulinaemia and remarkable bone-marrow infiltration with lymphoplasma cells were recognized. She also possessed antithyroglobulin and antimicrosomal antibodies; however, these autoantibodies did not change with the relapses. These results suggests that the recurrent depressions of LWa may be closely related to the underlying disease.
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PMID:Transient depression of LWa antigen with coincident production of anti-LWa repeated in relapses of malignant lymphoma. 880 62

Primary liver lymphomas usually present with the clinical picture of a liver tumor, and are characterized by a predominantly portal invasion by lymphoid cells of the B-cell phenotype. We report a case of primary sinusoidal lymphoma of the liver, in a 36 year-old male patient, revealed by homogeneous hepatosplenomegaly and infiltration of liver sinusoids by morphologically normal lymphocytes, without destruction of the parenchyma. Immunohistochemistry in paraffin-embedded tissue sections was positive for the pan T-cell marker MTI, weakly positive for UCHLI, and negative for CD3, and B-cell markers were negative; these findings were consistent with the diagnosis of T-cell lymphoma. The clinical, histological and immunological presentation of this lymphoma was similar to that of hepatosplenic gamma delta T-cell lymphoma. Autoimmune hemolytic anaemia preceded the lymphoma. Despite chemotherapy, the patient died 24 months after the initial presentation in the leukemic phase. A better understanding of this exceptional but characteristic entity is required for an accurate and early diagnosis.
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PMID:Primary sinusoidal lymphoma of the liver revealed by autoimmune hemolytic anemia. 929 81

The authors report an unusual case of peripheral T-cell lymphoma in a 16-year-old boy who presented initially with jaundice, splenomegaly, anemia, and thrombocytopenia. A lymphoma was found subsequently in the spleen, which was infiltrated extensively in the red pulp by medium-sized, blastic-appearing lymphoma cells. Immunologic characterization of these cells revealed positivity for CD3, CD5, CD45RO, CD56, and T-cell intracellular antigen (TIA), and negativity for CD2, CD3, CD4, CD8, CD57, CD34, and terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase (TdT). Conventional cytogenetic studies revealed the presence of isochromosome 7q. On follow up, this patient deteriorated rapidly, with evidence of liver and bone marrow involvement. Although the overall clinical and pathologic features of this disease were characteristic of hepatosplenic gammadelta T-cell lymphoma, the T-cell receptor of this tumor showed an immunophenotype of alphabeta not gammadelta lineage. Using the Southern blot technique, the authors demonstrated monoclonal gene rearrangement of the T-cell receptor beta-chain. Thus, they confirmed the existence of hepatosplenic alphabeta T-cell lymphoma. In view of its overall similarity to hepatosplenic gammadelta T-cell lymphoma, this unusual entity probably represents a slight biologic variation of the same disease.
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PMID:Hepatosplenic T-cell lymphoma of alphabeta lineage in a 16-year-old boy presenting with hemolytic anemia and thrombocytopenia. 1071 61

We report 2 cases of renal transplant recipients in whom hepatosplenic gamma-delta T-cell lymphoma (gamma-delta HSTCL) developed 5 and 10 years after transplantation. Both patients had marked hepatosplenomegaly, B symptoms (weight loss, fever, and night sweats), and abnormal peripheral blood findings, including anemia in both, thrombocytopenia and leukoerythroblastic changes in 1, and leukocytosis in the other. Markedly atypical lymphoid infiltrate of intermediate to large cells was observed in the spleen, liver, and bone marrow. The malignant cells showed typical immunophenotype of gamma-delta T cells (CD2+, CD3+, CD4-, CD8-, CD7+, gamma-delta T-cell receptor-positive, and alpha-beta T-cell receptor-negative) with clonal T-cell receptor gene rearrangement and were of the V-delta-1 subset. In addition, the cells contained a cytolytic granule-associated protein, TIA-1, and Fas ligand, indicating cytotoxic T-cell differentiation. The malignant T cells in both cases were of host tissue origin. Both cases were negative for Epstein-Barr virus genome using Southern blot analysis. The patients did not respond to reduction of immunosuppression. Despite initial response to chemotherapy, both patients died within 6 months of diagnosis. Our findings indicate that gamma-delta HSTCL can occur as a late complication in transplant recipients.
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PMID:Hepatosplenic gamma-delta T-cell lymphoma as a late-onset posttransplant lymphoproliferative disorder in renal transplant recipients. 1076 49


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