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Primary effusion lymphoma with aberrant T-cell phenotype in an iatrogenically immunosuppressed renal transplant male: cytologic diagnosis in peritoneal fluid.
Diagnostic cytopathology - 1 Feb 2015
Kalogeraki A, Haniotis V, Karvelas-Kalogerakis M, Karvela-Kalogeraki I, Psyllaki M, Tamiolakis D
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Primary effusion lymphoma (PEL) is an unusual class of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma that develops in body cavities, without associated mass lesions. It has been linked to human herpes virus 8 (HHV-8), an etiological factor of Kaposi's sarcoma. Although PEL is a B-cell lymphoma, the neoplastic cells are usually of the "null" phenotype by immunocytochemistry. The relative infrequency of this entity, the absence of wide...
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