Gene/Protein Disease Symptom Drug Enzyme Compound
Pivot Concepts:   Target Concepts:
Query: UMLS:C0242429 (sore throat)
 2,760 document(s) hit in 31,850,051 MEDLINE articles (0.00 seconds)

Angiogenic T/natural killer (NK)-cell lymphoma is a non-Hodgkin lymphoma characterized by necrosis and vascular destruction that is strongly associated with Epstein-Barr virus and AIDS. Early diagnosis is essential to improve the chances of patient survival, but severe local inflammatory infiltrate impairs histologic diagnosis by obscuring neoplastic cells. The most common markers are CD2, CD56, cytoplasmic CD3, and CD43 EBV. We describe 3 cases of angiogenic T/NK-cell lymphoma that show the diverse presentation of the same disease. Patient 1 was HIV positive and had nasal obstruction, facial edema, and ulceration of the nasal mucosa. Patient 2 had fever, a sore throat, and weight loss. Patient 3 had facial edema, fever, proptosis, and rapid development of neurologic alterations. Several biopsies were needed for histologic confirmation in these patients, despite positivity for the CD3 and CD56 markers.
 ...
PMID:Angiogenic non-Hodgkin T/natural killer (NK)-cell lymphoma: report of three cases. 1883 39

A 25-year-old Japanese man was suffering from high fever, sore throat, arthralgia, and macular salmon-pink eruption. The superficial lymph node was not palpable, and computed tomographic scans from the neck to pelvis demonstrated hepatosplenomegaly without apparent lymphadenopathy. Therefore, the possibility of malignant lymphoma was considered to be extremely low. Serology for Epstein Barr virus (EBV) and cytomegalovirus showed a postinfectious state, and blood culture was negative. Serum rheumatoid factor and antinuclear antibody were negative. Leukocytopenia (2.4 x 10(3)/mul) was observed, and thus a diagnosis of adult-onset Still's disease (AOSD) with hemophagocytic syndrome (HPS) was made. Fifty-five milligrams of prednisolone daily improved his symptoms and leukocytopenia promptly, but high fever with severe and progressive thrombocytopenia occurred 12 days later. Bone marrow aspiration revealed the presence of lymphoma cells and hemophagocytosis, and the CD45 gating analysis showed expanding population of CD2(+), CD3(-), and CD56(+) cells. Further, mucosal ulceration in the nasal cavity was detected. Therefore, a diagnosis of extranodal natural killer (NK)/T-cell lymphoma, nasal type, concomitant with HPS was made, and treatment with dexamethasone, etoposide, ifosfamide, carboplatin (DeVIC) regimen ameliorated his symptoms and platelet transfusion dependency. Later, a high titer of serum EBV-DNA was detected, which supported the diagnosis. Diagnosing AOSD, extranodal presentation of malignant lymphoma such as extranodal NK/T-cell lymphoma, nasal type, should be carefully considered.
 ...
PMID:A case of extranodal NK/T-cell lymphoma, nasal type mimicking typical manifestations of adult-onset Still's disease (AOSD) with hemophagocytic syndrome: diagnostic consideration between malignant lymphoma without lymphadenopathy and AOSD. 1960 86

T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is an aggressive hematological malignancy, accounting for ~25% of all adult cases of ALL. We herein report a case of T-cell ALL exhibiting aberrant CD34, CD56, CD33 and CD117 expression in addition to T-cell markers, which did not respond to induction treatment. A 55-year-old woman was admitted to our hospital with a sore throat unresponsive to medication for 1 month. The laboratory examination revealed pancytopenia and the peripheral blood smear examination revealed blast cells. On flow cytometric analysis, the blast cells were found to be positive for cytoplasmic CD3, CD2, CD5, CD7, CD34, CD56, CD33 and CD117, and negative for myeloperoxidase, CD13, CD11b, CD15, CD19, CD79a, CD22 and CD10. The patient was diagnosed with T-cell ALL according to the 2008 World Health Organisation classification. The patient did not respond to Hyper-cyclophosphamide, vincristine, adriamycin and dexamethasone (CVAD) course A treatment and succumbed to the disease during Hyper-CVAD course B treatment. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report of aberrant co-expression of the natural killer cell marker CD56, myeloid cell markers CD117 and CD33 and stem cell marker CD34 in a patient with T-cell ALL. This appears to be associated with an unfavorable outcome, despite the use of intensive chemotherapy.
 ...
PMID:T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia with co-expression of CD56, CD34, CD117 and CD33: A case with poor prognosis. 2744 73