Composite B-cell and T-cell lymphoma arising 24 years after nodular lymphocyte predominant Hodgkin's disease

J. Christopher Hancock, Alan Wells, Kevin C. Halling, Ken Tilashalski, Michael G. Conner, Carol Johns, Catherine M. Listinsky

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Abstract

Twenty-four years after apparently successful treatment for nodular lymphocyte predominant Hodgkin's disease (nLPHD), a 41-year old male developed "B" symptoms and extensive adenopathy. A right axillary lymph node biopsy showed two distinct regions including (1) histiocyte-rich B-cell lymphoma and (2) diffuse small T-cell lymphoma. A clonal rearrangement of the gene for the T-cell receptor beta chain confirmed the presence of a T-cell neoplasm, and this was further confirmed by selective polymerase chain reaction (PCR) on this morphologic zone. PCR on the morphologic B-cell lymphoma confirmed the presence of an immunoglobulin gene rearrangement. These two regions were separated by a less-defined zone containing a mixture of small CD57 positive T lymphocytes, small B lymphocytes, and rare lymphocytic and histiocytic (L&H) cells, highly suggestive of recurrent LPHD. The development of composite B-cell and T-cell lymphoma in this patient raises the speculation that nLPHD may be a neoplasm of lymphoid cells, which can differentiate in both B- and T-cell directions, with the "L&H" cells constituting their B-cell progeny.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)23-34
Number of pages12
JournalAnnals of Diagnostic Pathology
Volume3
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - 1999

Keywords

  • B-cell lymphoma
  • Composite lymphoma
  • Gene rearrangement
  • Immunophenotype
  • L&H cell
  • LPHD
  • Lymphocyte predominant Hodgkin's disease
  • Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma
  • Reed-Sternberg cell
  • T-cell lymphoma

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Pathology and Forensic Medicine

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