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Atypical lymphocytic leukemia and mantle cell lymphoma immunologically very close: flow cytometric distinction by the use of CD20 and CD54 expression

Leukemia volume 15, pages 1458–1465 (2001)Cite this article

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Integration of morphological and immunophenotypic data is critical in achieving diagnosis accuracy and minimising interobserver interpretative discrepancies. The aim of this work was to compare the immunophenotype and the morphology of chronic lymphocytic leukaemia and mantle cell lymphoma, to help in the differential diagnosis of CD5 positive monoclonal B cells. Frozen/thawed samples from 91 patients were analysed retrospectively. Fresh samples from 17 mixed/atypical CLL and 13 MCL were tested to corroborate the results. Markers were analysed as percentage (%) of positive B lymphocyte subpopulation, and in terms of median fluorescence intensity (MFI). Matutes's CLL score clearly allowed distinguishing between classical CLL on the one hand, and atypical CLL and MCL on the other hand. The percentage of CD54-positive cells and the median fluorescence intensity of CD20 and CD54 were the only parameters which were significantly higher in MCL than in atypical CLL (P < 0.05), allowing an immunological distinction between these two entities. Nevertheless, due to a quenching problem when using CD20 and CD54 together, and because CD18 showed a statistically different expression between classical and atypical CLL, the combination of CD18/CD54 has been preferred and showed a different pattern in the three entities. Immunophenotyping could be helpful in the differential diagnosis of CD5-positive B cell chronic lymphoproliferative disorders with atypical features that do not fit exactly into any of the morphologic proposed groups.

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The authors wish to thank the Salus Sanguinis Foundation for financial supaport, and Mrs Valérie Etienne for technical assistance.

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Deneys, V., Michaux, L., Leveugle, P. et al. Atypical lymphocytic leukemia and mantle cell lymphoma immunologically very close: flow cytometric distinction by the use of CD20 and CD54 expression. Leukemia 15, 1458–1465 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.leu.2402200

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