Article
Anaplastic large cell (Ki-1) lymphoma with histiocytic phenotype simulating carcinoma.
American journal of clinical pathology - 1 Oct 1990
Banks P M, Metter J, Allred D C
Abstract excerpt
Histiocytic and epithelial cell types share many cytomorphologic and functional characteristics; it is predictable, therefore, that corresponding malignancies might be difficult to distinguish. Described is the case of a 52-year-old woman in whom disseminated anaplastic large-cell lymphoma simulated carcinomatosis by conventional morphologic criteria. Evidence of histiocytic differentiation was derived from...
Topics
- Antibodies, Monoclonal
- Carcinoma
- DNA Probes
- DNA, Neoplasm
- Diagnosis, Differential
- Female
- Histiocytes
- Humans
- Immunoenzyme Techniques
- Lymph Nodes
- Lymphoma, Large B-Cell, Diffuse
