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- Title
Diagnostic cues for natural killer cell lymphoma: primary nodal presentation and the role of in situ hybridisation for Epstein-Barr virus encoded early small RNA in detecting occult bone marrow involvement.
- Authors
Chim, C-S; Ma, E S K; Loong, F; Kwong, Y-L
- Abstract
Natural killer (NK) cell lymphomas are rare, and atypical features might lead to diagnostic pitfalls. This report describes an unusual patient in whom lymphoma occurred initially as isolated lymph node involvement, an exceptional presentation of an almost exclusively extranodal disease. Furthermore, during the terminal haemophagocytosis in the bone marrow, lymphoma cells lost the expression of the NK cell marker, CD56, making the histopathological diagnosis of bone marrow involvement difficult. This was resolved by in situ hybridisation for Epstein-Barr virus encoded small RNA, which detected occult bone marrow infiltration.
- Publication
Journal of clinical pathology, 2005, Vol 58, Issue 4, p443
- ISSN
0021-9746
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1136/jcp.2004.022608