Focal lymphoid hyperplasia of the terminal ileum presenting mantle zone hyperplasia with clear cytoplasm. A report of three cases.

Pathology Oncology Research : POR
Masaru KojimaNaoya Nakamura

Abstract

We report three unusual cases of focal lymphoid hyperplasia of the ileocecal valve. The gross specimens showed thickening of the ileocecal valve. Low power magnification showed a dense lymphoid infiltrate in the mucosa and submucosa. This condition was characterized by reactive lymphoid follicles with large reactive germinal centers surrounded by a pale cuff of mantle zone lymphocytes presenting a marginal zone distribution pattern. These cells had intermediate- to- medium-sized round or slightly indented nuclei and a broad rim of clear cytoplasm. However, immunohistochemical study demonstrated that both the mantle zone lymphocytes and the pale cuff of the lymphoid cells were CD20+, sIgM+, sIgD+, CD5-, CD10-, CD23-, CD43-, Bcl-2+, Bcl-6-, CyclinD1-. The polytypic nature of these cells was demonstrated by immunohistochemistry and polymerase chain reaction. This unusual mantle cell hyperplasia with clear cytoplasm associated with focal lymphoid hyperplasia in middle-aged and elderly patients should be differentiated from the extranodal marginal zone B-cell lymphoma of mucosa associated lymphoid tissue type or mantle cell lymphoma showing a marginal zone distribution pattern. To avoid overdiagnosis and overtreatment, it is suggest...Continue Reading

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