Article
T-lymphoid extramedullary (lymphadenopathic) blast crisis in CML.
Acta clinica Belgica - 1 Jan 1995
Van Dorpe J, Van Damme S, Jacobs V, Van den Berghe H, Criel A, Michielssen P, Louwagie A
Abstract excerpt
T-cells are only rarely involved in chronic myeloid leukemia. We report an unusual case of T-lymphoid extramedullary (lymphadenopathic) blast crisis in a 66-year-old patient with Philadelphia positive chronic myeloid leukemia. The lymph node morphological picture resembled that of a peripheral T-cell lymphoma. Immunohistochemical stainings showed most lymph node blasts to have T-phenotype (positivity for CD-2,...
Topics
- Aged
- Blast Crisis
- Flow Cytometry
- Humans
- Leukemia, Myelogenous, Chronic, BCR-ABL Positive
- Male
- Phenotype
- T-Lymphocytes