TY - JOUR
T1 - Scanning and transmission electron microscopy of clonal peripheral blood lymphocytes in low grade non-Hodgkin's B-cell lymphomas with predominant splenomegaly
AU - Soligo, D.
AU - Quirici, N.
AU - Caneva, L.
AU - Baldini, L.
AU - Cro, L.
AU - Deliliers, G. L.
PY - 1994
Y1 - 1994
N2 - Peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBLs) from 14 patients with low grade non-Hodgkin's B-cell lymphomas with predominant splenomegaly were studied by means of scanning (SEM) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM). All patients had peripheral blood and bone marrow involvement, the absence of lymphoadenopathy, and, except in one case, immunophenotypic features of a malignant proliferation of mature spleen B-cells arising from outside the germinal center, but not consistent with CLL or HCL. Several distinctive cytological features were observed in PBLs of the different subgroups. The SEM surface features of PBLs in patients with intermediate differentiation lymphocytic lymphoma (IDL) (five cases), lymphoplasmacytoid immunocytoma (LP- IC) (two cases), and mixed small and large cells malignant lymphoma (one case) were characterized by the presence of numerous well-developed microvilli. Some distinctive TEM ultrastructural features were also seen in the different cases. In the two cases of splenic lymphoma with villous lymphocytes (SLVL), SEM revealed large and elongated surface microvilli generally arising from two or three poles of the cells. This surface morphology, confirmed by TEM analysis, may be pathognomonic of this disease. Four additional cases, tentatively classified as small lymphocytic lymphoma on the basis of immunophenotypic data, were extremely heterogeneous at both SEM and TEM analysis. The ultrastructural features revealed by SEM and TEM may be useful for the more precise characterization of this heterogeneous group of diseases, which is generally difficult to define even when immunophenotypic and molecular approaches are used.
AB - Peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBLs) from 14 patients with low grade non-Hodgkin's B-cell lymphomas with predominant splenomegaly were studied by means of scanning (SEM) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM). All patients had peripheral blood and bone marrow involvement, the absence of lymphoadenopathy, and, except in one case, immunophenotypic features of a malignant proliferation of mature spleen B-cells arising from outside the germinal center, but not consistent with CLL or HCL. Several distinctive cytological features were observed in PBLs of the different subgroups. The SEM surface features of PBLs in patients with intermediate differentiation lymphocytic lymphoma (IDL) (five cases), lymphoplasmacytoid immunocytoma (LP- IC) (two cases), and mixed small and large cells malignant lymphoma (one case) were characterized by the presence of numerous well-developed microvilli. Some distinctive TEM ultrastructural features were also seen in the different cases. In the two cases of splenic lymphoma with villous lymphocytes (SLVL), SEM revealed large and elongated surface microvilli generally arising from two or three poles of the cells. This surface morphology, confirmed by TEM analysis, may be pathognomonic of this disease. Four additional cases, tentatively classified as small lymphocytic lymphoma on the basis of immunophenotypic data, were extremely heterogeneous at both SEM and TEM analysis. The ultrastructural features revealed by SEM and TEM may be useful for the more precise characterization of this heterogeneous group of diseases, which is generally difficult to define even when immunophenotypic and molecular approaches are used.
KW - Lymphoma
KW - SEM
KW - Splenomegaly
KW - TEM
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U2 - 10.1002/jemt.1070280409
DO - 10.1002/jemt.1070280409
M3 - Article
C2 - 7919521
AN - SCOPUS:0028271864
VL - 28
SP - 345
EP - 355
JO - Microscopy Research and Technique
JF - Microscopy Research and Technique
SN - 1059-910X
IS - 4
ER -