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Query: UMLS:C0024141 (systemic lupus erythematosus)
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Two patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and T-zone lymphoma are described. On admission, both showed arthralgia, generalized lymphadenopathy, hypergammaglobulinemia and positive antinuclear antibody. Lymph node biopsies revealed diffuse infiltration of atypical T-lymphocytes in the expanded interfollicular area (T-zone), a finding characteristic for the T-zone lymphoma. Renal biopsy showed lupus nephritis and neoplastic lymphoid cell infiltration in the glomeruli of one patient, but only diffuse infiltration of neoplastic lymphoid cells and mature plasma cells were observed in the interstitium of the other patient. Both patients responded remarkably well to prednisolone (1 mg/kg/day).
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PMID:T-zone lymphoma in association with systemic lupus erythematosus. 178 84

Autoimmune disease-associated lymphadenopathy shows marked histopathological and clinical diversity. We describe the clinicopathological and immunohistochemical findings of nine cases of autoimmune disease-associated lymphadenopathy, which posed a serious differential diagnostic problem regarding T-zone dysplasia with hyperplastic follicles. There were two males and seven females aged 25 to 65 years (median 37 years). The patients had multicentric lymphadenopathy in association with clinical and laboratory findings suggestive of an "autoimmune disease". Four patients were diagnosed to have systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), and the remaining five patients had antiphospholipid antibody syndrome and Sjogren's syndrome (SS), rheumatoid arthritis (RA), chronic thyroiditis, RA and SS, and SLE and SS, respectively. None of the nine patients developed malignant lymphomas during the follow-up periods from 44 to 225 months (median 103 months). The lesions were characterized by paracortical hyperplasia with prominent vascular proliferation and many lymphoid follicles with germinal centers. The paracortical area usually contained numerous small T-lymphocytes without cytological atypia, accompanied by a variable number of plasma cells, B-immunoblasts, and histiocytes. Polymerase chain reaction analysis demonstrated no clonal rearrangement of the T-cell receptor chain gene in four cases examined, although immunoglobulin heavy chain rearrangement was detected in only one case. These findings suggest that autoimmune disease-associated lymphadenopathy, especially SLE, shares the histological features with T-zone dysplasia with hyperplastic follicles. The nine cases presented here should be differentiated from T-zone lymphoma with follicles and angioimmunoblastic lymphoma with hyperplastic germinal centers. To avoid overdiagnosis and overtreatment, we emphasize the need to turn attention to these clinical and laboratory findings as well as to the morphological features.
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PMID:Autoimmune disease-associated lymphadenopathy with histological appearance of T-zone dysplasia with hyperplastic follicles. A clinicopathological analysis of nine cases. 1135 9