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Query: UMLS:C0079731 (B-cell lymphoma)
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Certain maternal/infant pairs, as well as other high-risk adults, develop a host-response HIV-1 infection characterized by circulating and tissue infiltrative CD8 T-cell lymphocytosis, termed Diffuse Infiltrative Lymphocytosis Syndrome (DILS). DILS primarily occurs in the salivary glands, lungs, renal interstitium, and gastrointestinal tract. DILS differs from Sjogren's syndrome in the degree of salivary gland enlargement, high frequency of extraglandular manifestations, paucity of autoantibodies, and distinct immunogenetic associations. Salivary gland B-cell lymphoma is a complication common to both conditions. The circulating CD8 T cells in DILS have a memory phenotype. Egress into target tissues involves adhesion molecule receptor-ligand interactions, apparently in response to the local presence of HIV-1. Immunogenetic predisposition involves interaction between both MHC classes I and II loci. This disease appears to reflect a specific host response that leads to persistence of monocyte-tropic, rather than T-cell-tropic, HIV-1 strains, in an analogous fashion to Visna Maedi virus disease in sheep. The development of DILS in children appears to be regulated in a dominant fashion by maternally or paternally inherited MHC class II alleles in response to transplacentally or perinatally acquired maternal HIV-1 strains.
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PMID:Diffuse infiltrative lymphocytosis syndrome in children and adults infected with HIV-1: a model of rheumatic illness caused by acquired viral infection. 128 93

Five cases of B-cell lymphoma are described in which the morphology and initial immunohistochemistry suggested a diagnosis of T-cell neoplasia. In four cases, the histological picture was that of an adult pleomorphic T-cell lymphoma; the fifth case was a lymphocytic lymphoma (CLL) with an accompanying T-cell lymphocytosis in the peripheral blood. Immunohistochemistry on both frozen and paraffin-embedded material showed that the cellular population in all five cases consisted mainly of T-cells; less than 10% of the cells stained as B-cells. However, immunoglobulin immunostaining combined with use of the new lineage-related monoclonal antibodies reactive in paraffin section revealed that the B-cells constituted the neoplastic population. Genetic analysis showed no evidence of clonality in the T-cells, nor was it able to detect rearrangement in the small number of clonal B-cells present. These cases represent a variety of B-cell neoplasia that mimicks T-cell lymphoma morphologically and immunologically. The vigorous T-cell reaction seen in such lymphomas means that the malignant population can be correctly identified only by careful examination of the immunohistochemical findings.
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PMID:T-cell-rich B-cell lymphoma. 328 59