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Peripheral T cell lymphoma presenting primarily as lethal midline granuloma
Authors:A Chott  K Rappersberger  W Schlossarek  T Radaszkiewicz
Affiliation:Department of Pathology, University of Vienna, School of Medicine, Austria.
Abstract:
This clinicopathologic study reports seven patients who primarily presented with ulcerative and destructive lesions of the upper aerodigestive tract and face, clinically consistent with so-called lethal midline granuloma (LMG). Histologically, the infiltrates were composed of atypical lymphoid cells that displayed angiocentricity and angiodestruction. In five patients, involvement of distant sites such as skin, lungs, lymph nodes, and bone marrow occurred, and in two cases, the disease remained localized. Immunomorphologic analysis, using monoclonal antibodies to frozen and paraffin sections, provided evidence for the diagnosis of peripheral T cell lymphoma (PTL) in all cases. The midline tumors were classified as diffuse mixed or diffuse large cell lymphoma occurred at distant sites. According to modern PTL classification systems, the lesions could be classified as pleomorphic T cell lymphomas. Those five patients who presented with or progressed to large cell lymphoma died within 18 months (mean, 7 months), whereas the two patients with localized disease are alive after 10 and 36 months, respectively. The size of the atypical lymphoid cells may be of prognostic significance since the large cell compartment seems to represent the major growth fraction in these PTLs.
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