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Neural cell adhesion molecule-positive peripheral T-cell lymphoma: a rare variant with a propensity for unusual sites of involvement.
Blood - 1 May 1992
Kern W F, Spier C M, Hanneman E H, Miller T P, Matzner M, Grogan T M
Abstract excerpt
A distinct subset of patients with peripheral T-cell lymphoma (PTCL) is described which reacts with Leu-19 (CD56), an antibody that has been shown to identify the neural cell adhesion molecule (NCAM). These NCAM-positive PTCL patients (11 of a series of 46 PTCL; 24%) exhibited a striking predilection for unusual anatomic sites of involvement: central nervous system (36%), muscle (18%), gastrointestinal tract, and...
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