Article
Cutaneous type of adult T cell leukemia/lymphoma in a French West Indian woman. Clonal rearrangement of T-cell receptor beta and gamma genes and monoclonal integration of HTLV-I proviral DNA in the skin infiltrate.
Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology - 1 Nov 1990
Gessain A, Moulonguet I, Flageul B, Perrin P, Capesius C, D'Agay M F, Gisselbrecht C, Sigaux F, Civatte J
Abstract excerpt
A 45-year-old woman, a native of the French West Indies who had lived in France since 1973, developed multiple cutaneous plaques and nodules in 1987. Histopathologic studies revealed dermal infiltration with mature activated T cells (CD4+, CD25+, DR+) with nuclear convolutions and epidermatotropi...
Topics
- Antigens, CD
- Blotting, Southern
- Cells, Cultured
- DNA, Viral
- Female
- Gene Rearrangement, beta-Chain T-Cell Antigen Receptor
- Gene Rearrangement, gamma-Chain T-Cell Antigen Receptor
- HTLV-I Antigens
- Human T-lymphotropic virus 1
- Humans
- Leukemia-Lymphoma, Adult T-Cell
- Middle Aged
