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  • Inconclusive flow cytometric surface light chain results [Elektronski vir] : can cytoplasmic light chains, Bcl-2 expression and PCR clonality analysis improve accuracy of cytological diagnoses in B-cell lymphomas
    Brožič, Andreja ...
    Background: Flow cytometric immunophenotyping (FCI), is widely used in cytology for distinguishing between B-cell lymphoma (BCL) and reactive lymphocytic proliferations (RLP), mainly by identifying ... monotypic B-cell populations. Since this cannot always be determined by ratios of surface immunoglobulin light chains (sIg LCs) we wanted to assess if cytoplasmic immunoglobulin (cIg) LCs, Bcl-2 and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) based clonality analysis can improve accuracy of cytological diagnoses of BCL. Methods: Our study included 98 fine needle aspiration biopsies from lymph nodes suspicious for BCL with inconclusive sIg LCs. In all cases PCR clonality analysis was performed in order to determine immunoglobulin heavy chain (IGH) gene and T-cell receptor (TRC) gene rearrangement. In selected cases expression of Bcl-2 and cIg LC were determined by FC. Results: Thirty patients had lymphoma and 68 had reactive lymphocytic proliferations. Three patterns of sIg LCs staining were found: negative, dual positive and difficult to interpret. Percentage of lymphomas was highest in the dual positive group (75 %). Morphology coupled with cIg LCs determination and/or Bcl-2 expression was able to give a correct diagnosis in 83 % of cases. Molecular tests would have been misleading in 15 % of cases because 7/30 BCL were polyclonal and 8/68 RLP were monoclonal. Conclusions: Determination of cIg LCs, Bcl-2 expression and PCR clonality analysis of B cells improved accuracy of cytological diagnoses in BCL with inconclusive sIg LC. However, clonality determined by PCR was misleading in some cases.
    Source: Diagnostic pathology [Elektronski vir]. - ISSN 1746-1596 (Vol. 10, št. 191, 2015)
    Type of material - e-article
    Publish date - 2015
    Language - english
    COBISS.SI-ID - 2232955

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    http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4612408/pdf/13000_2015_Article_427.pdf
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