Article
Cutaneous immunocytoma: a clinical, histologic, and phenotypic study of 11 cases.
Applied immunohistochemistry & molecular morphology : AIMM - 1 Sept 2004
Magro Cynthia M, Porcu Pierluigi, Ahmad Naushaba, Klinger Dana, Crowson A Neil, Nuovo Gerard
Abstract excerpt
Immunocytomas represent low grade B cell lymphomas related to marginal zone lymphoma but with a predominance of cells having plasmacytic features. Eleven patients presented with lesions compatible with primary cutaneous immunocytoma. The expression of CD2, CD3, CD5, CD20, CD21, CD23, CD43, CD56, CD79, and bcl-2 was analyzed immunohistochemically and of lambda and kappa light chains by an in situ hybridization...
Topics
- Adult
- Aged
- Antigens, CD
- Female
- Genes, Immunoglobulin
- Hepacivirus
- Herpesvirus 4, Human
- Humans
- Immunohistochemistry
- In Situ Hybridization
- Leukemia, Lymphocytic, Chronic, B-Cell
