Article
Immunoglobulin gene rearrangement in T-cell-rich reactive pleural effusion of a patient with B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia.
Acta haematologica - 1 Jan 1996
Miyahara M, Shimamoto Y, Sano M, Nakano H, Shibata K, Matsuzaki M
Abstract excerpt
Pleural effusion in chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) is a relatively rare phenomenon. We report a case of a pleural effusion associated with B-cell CLL but with predominantly reactive T lymphocytes in the effusion. A cell surface phenotype study showed that T lymphocytes predominated in the ple...
Topics
- Aged
- B-Lymphocytes
- Biopsy
- Blotting, Southern
- Gene Rearrangement, T-Lymphocyte
- Genes, Immunoglobulin
- Genotype
- Humans
- Immunophenotyping
- Leukemia, Lymphocytic, Chronic, B-Cell
- Lymph Nodes
- Male
- Pleura
- Pleural Effusion, Malignant
- T-Lymphocytes