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ALK-positive plasmablastic B-cell lymphoma with expression of the NPM-ALK fusion transcript: report of 2 cases
24 Jun 2003
Abstract excerpt
While most anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK)-positive non-Hodgkin lymphomas (NHLs) are of T-cell lineage, a small number of B-lineage tumors with plasmablastic morphology and expression of the full-length ALK protein have been described in the literature. All of these reported tumors lacked the NPM-ALK fusion transcript. There is controversy regarding the existence of ALK fusion-positive B-cell NHL, with many...
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