T lymphoblastic leukemia/lymphoma and human immunodeficiency virus infection
T lymphoblastic leukemia/lymphoma and human immunodeficiency virus infection
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T淋巴细胞白血病/淋巴瘤与人类免疫缺陷病毒感染
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2011
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B. Alobeid
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Kamraan Z. Gill;Shafinaz Hussein;Yuxia Jia;V. Murty;G. Bhagat;B. Alobeid
Dear Sir, Human immunodeficiency virus-infected (HIV+) individuals are at high risk for developing certain hematologic malignancies such as diffuse large B-cell lymphoma and Burkitt lymphoma. Advances in therapeutic management have improved the long-term survival of HIV-infected individuals leading to increases in the incidence of other neoplasms that were hitherto considered rare in this patient population. Nevertheless, T lymphoblastic leukemia/lymphoma (T-ALL/ LBL) remains a rare occurrence in patients with HIV infection; only five cases have been previously reported [1–5]. Here, we describe an additional case of T-ALL/LBL occurring in the setting of HIV infection. A 55-year-old man with a history of HIV/AIDS presented with weakness, fever, weight loss, and a neck mass for 1 month. He was diagnosed with HIV/AIDS 20 years prior to presentation, and his course had been complicated by numerous opportunistic infections. He had been treated with HAART since the time of original diagnosis, but he was reported to be noncompliant. His most recent CD4 count and viral load were 218/μL (normal range 393–1489/μL) and 68 copies/mL (by PCR assay, COBAS AmpliPrep/COBAS TaqMan HIV-1 Test Kit, Version 2.0), respectively. His physical exam was significant for fever (39.5°C), lymphadenopathy (submental, cervical, and inguinal), and skin rash consisting of erythematous papules and hyperpigmented macules on the trunk and proximal extremities. Laboratory studies showed a hemoglobin concentration of 5.1 g/dL (normal range 13.3–16.2 g/dL), a white blood cell count of 4.0 (×10/L, normal range 3.54–9.06), and a platelet count of 52,000/μL (52×10/L, normal range 165–415×10/L). CT scan revealed lymphadenopathy involving the neck, mediastinal, mesenteric, retroperitoneal, and inguinal lymph nodes. A bone marrow biopsy revealed a markedly hypercellular marrow for age (90%), the entire marrow space being replaced by an extensive infiltrate of blasts (Fig. 1a). The marrow aspirate also showed an extensive population of blasts, which accounted for 86% of all marrow nucleated elements. Flow cytometric analysis of the aspirate revealed a population of blasts that expressed CD34, TdT, cytoplasmic CD3, CD5, CD7, CD33, CD43, and HLA-DR and did not express surface CD3, CD2, CD4, CD8, CD1a, CD117, CD13, CD11c, surface TCR, or CD64 (Fig. 1b–d). This immunophenotype was diagnostic of T-ALL. A biopsy of a lymph node from the left neck showed extensive paracortical infiltrates of lymphoblasts, and the immunophenotype of these blasts was similar to that of the blasts in the bone marrow. The lymphoblasts were negative for EBV by EBVencoded RNA in situ hybridization. G band karyotype analysis of the bone marrow and lymph node samples revealed the translocation t(7;14)(p15;q32), which, although rare, has been previously described in association with TK. Z. Gill : S. Hussein :V. V. Murty :G. Bhagat : B. Alobeid (*) Departments of Pathology and Cell Biology, Columbia University Medical Center and New York Presbyterian Hospital, 630 W. 168 St., VC14-229, New York, NY 10032, USA e-mail: ba2024@columbia.edu
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45.3
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Goldberg, JM;Silverman, LB;Asselin, BL
通讯作者:
Asselin, BL