Bone marrow trephines containing lymphoid aggregates from patients with rheumatoid and other autoimmune disorders frequently show clonal B-cell infiltrates

Human Pathology

Volumn 38, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1402-1411

  Engels, Knut ^a   Oeschger, Sabine ^b   Hansmann, Martin Leo ^a   Hillebrand, Matthias ^c   Kriener, Susanne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL FRANKFURT   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL GIESSEN   (Germany)

^c St Vinzenz und Elizabeth Hospital   (Germany)

Author keywords

Autoimmunity; BIOMED 2; Bone marrow; Clonality; IGH rearrangement; Rheumatoid disorders

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; B CELL LYMPHOMA; B LYMPHOCYTE; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; CELL AGGREGATION; CELL CLONE; CELL INFILTRATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CLONAL VARIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; FOLLOW UP; GENE REARRANGEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPHOID HYPERPLASIA; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS;

ADULT; AGED; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; B-LYMPHOCYTES; BONE MARROW; BONE MARROW EXAMINATION; CLONE CELLS; FEMALE; GENE REARRANGEMENT; HUMANS; HYPERPLASIA; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAINS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPHOID TISSUE; LYMPHOMA, B-CELL; LYMPHOMA, LOW-GRADE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 34547838193     PISSN: 00468177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.humpath.2007.02.009     Document Type: Article

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