PMID: 9547990Jan 1, 1997Paper

Clonality in lymphocyte predominance Hodgkin's disease

Cancer Surveys
L M WeissK L Chang

Abstract

Abundant evidence has led to the clinical and biological separation of lymphocyte predominance from other types of Hodgkin's disease. However, it is still not clear whether lymphocyte predominance represents a polyclonal reactive lesion (possibly representing an abnormal immune disorder), a polyclonal or oligoclonal preneoplastic disorder or a monoclonal neoplastic disorder. The clinical and histological features are distinctive, but they do not provide clear indications of the nature of lymphocyte predominance. Some immunohistochemical and in situ hybridization studies have shown monotypic light chain restriction in the L&H cells, almost always of kappa type, implying a monoclonal process. Southern blotting studies are of limited utility, given their relatively low sensitivity and the rarity of L&H cells within involved tissues. Polymerase chain reaction studies have yielded conflicting results. Some, but not all, have demonstrated monoclonal populations in tissue extracts. Single cell PCR studies have generally not found monoclonal populations, although one case stands as an exception. Cases of large cell lymphoma complicating lymphocyte predominance have been monoclonal by polymerase chain reaction and clonospecific primers ...Continue Reading

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