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B-Lymphoblastic Lymphomas Evolving from Follicular Lymphomas Co-Express Surrogate Light Chains and Mutated Gamma Heavy Chains.
The American journal of pathology - 1 Dec 2016
Slot Linda M, Hoogeboom Robbert, Smit Laura A, Wormhoudt Thera A M, Biemond Bart J, Oud Monique E C M, Schilder-Tol Esther J M, Mulder André B, Jongejan Aldo, van Kampen Antoine H C, Kluin Philip M, Guikema Jeroen E J, Bende Richard J, van Noesel Carel J M
Abstract excerpt
Follicular lymphoma (FL) is an indolent B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma able to transform into germinal center-type diffuse large B-cell lymphoma. We describe four extraordinary cases of FL, which progressed to TdT+CD20- precursor B-lymphoblastic lymphoma (B-LBL). Fluorescence in situ hybridization analysis showed that all four B-LBLs had acquired a MYC translocation on transformation. Comparative genomic...
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