Lymphoproliferative disorders of the T-cell series. A review.
Lymphoproliferative disorders of the T-cell series. A review.
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T 细胞系列的淋巴增殖性疾病。
DOI:
10.1097/00005792-198009000-00002
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发表时间:
1980
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影响因子:
1.6
通讯作者:
Good,RA
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作者:
Safai,B;Good,RA
Recent years have witnessed a major improvement in understanding of the lymphoid malignancies. This improvement has derived in part from extensive employment of new techniques which permit precise definition of the population of lymphoid cells (86, 112). The most useful of these methods include cell surface marker and enzymatic analyses of the malignant cells, and the extensive studies relating these analyses to investigations of the populations and subpopulations of normal lymphocytes. Among the lymphoid malignancies, those of T-cell type have received less attention than those of B-cell class. It is the purpose of this review to consider the clinical characteristics, histologic features, and immunopathologic nature of the T-cell lymphomas, and their responses to therapy. The impulse for a new view of the lymphoid malignancies originated from the definition of the two major arms of the immunity system (66). It is now clear that the lymphoid malignancies can incisively be viewed as representing monoclonal malignant expressions in which the cells can often be considered to be frozen at one of the several stages of differentiation within one or the other of two major branches of lymphoid cells. It is to be anticipated for the T-cell lymphomas, as for each of the other lymphoid malignancies, that treatment will ultimately be related directly to the nature of the cells involved in the malignant process. Thus, improvement in definition and development of appropriate classifications will ultimately have pragmatic impact. Already, treatment of the lymphomas has been related to the new classifica-tions of these diseases and this issue will be ad-dressed in this analysis.