Clonal T-cell populations in lymphomatoid papulosis. Evidence of a lymphoproliferative origin for a clinically benign disease.
Clonal T-cell populations in lymphomatoid papulosis. Evidence of a lymphoproliferative origin for a clinically benign disease.
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淋巴瘤样丘疹病中的克隆 T 细胞群。
DOI:
10.1056/nejm198608213150802
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发表时间:
1986
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Sklar,J
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作者:
Weiss,LM;Wood,GS;Trela,M;Warnke,RA;Sklar,J
Lymphomatoid papulosis is a chronic, clinically benign skin disorder that, when examined histologically, is seen to include numerous large, atypical lymphoid cells that display antigenic markers of T lymphocytes. To investigate the disparity between the clinical behavior of this disease and its malignant histologic appearance, we analyzed the DNA from skin lesions of six patients for rearrangements of beta and gamma T-cell receptor genes. Lesions from five of these patients showed between one and three clonal rearrangements for at least one T-cell receptor gene. Three separate biopsy specimens from a single patient showed different patterns of rearrangements for the beta gene in each specimen. Our results indicate that lymphomatoid papulosis is a clonal T-cell lymphoproliferative process that may possibly be multiclonal in origin.We conclude that this disease has both biologic and histologic features consistent with a malignant T-cell neoplasm despite its indolent course. (N Engl J Med 1986; 315:475–9.)