Diagnosis of mycosis fungoides with different algorithmic approaches

Journal of Cutaneous Pathology

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 8-14

  Furmanczyk, Paul S ^a   Wolgamot, Gregory M ^b   Kussick, Steve J ^c   Sabath, Dan E ^a   Olerud, John E ^a   Argenyi, Zsolt B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b Northwest Pathology   (United States)

^c PHENOPATH LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

T LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CLONAL VARIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOLLOW UP; GENE REARRANGEMENT; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MYCOSIS FUNGOIDES; PARAPSORIASIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; T LYMPHOCYTE;

ALGORITHMS; CLONE CELLS; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MYCOSIS FUNGOIDES; NEOPLASM STAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ROC CURVE; T-LYMPHOCYTES; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 71049115512     PISSN: 03036987     EISSN: 16000560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0560.2009.01289.x     Document Type: Article

References (34)

1. Willemze R, Jaffe ES, Burg G, et al. WHO-EORTC classification for cutaneous lymphomas. Blood 2005 105 (10 3768.
2. Patterson JW, Wick MR. eds. Lymphoid infiltrates, lymphoma, and hematopoietic proliferations. In AFIP atlas of tumor pathology: Nonmelanocytic tumors of the skin. Washington, DC : ARP Press, 2006 431.
3. Nashan D, Faulhaber D, Ständer S, Luger TA, Stadler R. Mycosis fungoides: a dermatologic masquerader. Br J Dermatol 2007 156 : 1.
4. Olerud JE, Kulin PA, Chew DE, et al. Cutaneous T-cell lymphoma: Evaluation of pretreatment skin biopsy specimens by a panel of pathologists. Arch Dermatol 1992 128 : 501.
5. Massone C, Kodama K, Kerl H, Cerroni L. Histopathologic features of early (patch) lesions of mycosis fungoides: A morphologic study of 745 biopsy specimens from 427 patients. Am J Surg Pathol 2005 29 (4 550.
6. Guitart J, Kennedy J, Ronan S, Chmiel JS, Hsiegh YC, Variakojis D. Histologic criteria for the diagnosis of mycosis fungoides: proposal for a grading system to standardize pathology reporting. J Cutan Pathol 2001 28 : 174.
7. Pimpinelli N, Olsen EA, Santucci M, et al. Defining early mycosis fungoides. J Am Acad Dermatol 2005 53 (6 1053.
8. Stevens SR, Ke MS, Birol A, et al. A simple clinical scoring system to improve the sensitivity and standardization of the diagnosis of mycosis fungoides type cutaneous T-cell lymphoma: logistic regression of clinical and laboratory data. Br J Dermatol 2003 149 : 513.
9. Florell SR, Cessna M, Lundell RB, et al. Usefulness (or lack thereof) of immunophenotying in atypical cutaneous T-cell infiltrates. Am J Clin Pathol 2006 125 : 727.
10. Ponti R, Quaglino P, Novelli et al. T-cell receptor γ gene rearrangement by multiplex polymerase chain reaction/heteroduplex analysis in patients with cutaneous T-cell lymphoma (mycosis fungoides/Sézary syndrome) and benign inflammatory disease: correlation with clinical, histological and immunophenotypical findings. Br J Dermatol 2005 153 : 565.
11. Nuckols JD, Shea CR, Horenstein MG, Burchette JL, Prieto VG. Quantitation of intra-epidermal T-cell subsets in formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded tissue helps in the diagnosis of mycosis fungoides. J Cutan Pathol 1999 26 : 169.
12. Michie SA, Abel EA, Hoppe RT, Warnke RA, Wood GS. Discordant expression of antigens between intraepidermal and intradermal T cells in mycosis fungoides. Am J Pathol 1990 137 (6 1447.
13. Liebmann RD, Anderson B, McCarthy KP, Chow JWM. The polymerase chain reaction in the diagnosis of early mycosis fungoides. J Pathol 1997 182 : 282.
14. Wood GS, Tung RM, Haeffner AC, et al. Detection of clonal T-cell receptor γ Gene Rearrangements in early mycosis fungoides/sezary syndrome by polymerase chain reaction and denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (PCR/DGGE). J Invest Dermatol 1994 103 (1 34.
15. Mielke V, Staib G, Boehncke WH, Duller B, Sterry W. Clonal disease in early cutaneous T-cell lymphoma. Dermatol Clin 1994 12 (2 351.
16. Guitart J, Kaul K. A new polymerase chain reaction-based method for the detection of T-cell clonality in patients with possible cutaneous T-cell lymphoma. Arch Dermatol 1999 135 : 158.
17. Tok J, Szabolcs MJ, Silvers DN, Zhong J, Matsushima AY. Detection of clonal T-cell receptor γ chain gene rearrangements by polymerase chain reaction and denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (PCR/DGGE) in archival specimens from patients with early cutaneous T-cell lymphoma: correlation of histologic findings with PCR/DGGE. J Am Acad Dermatol 1998 38 (3 453.
18. Bachelez H, Bioul L, Flageul B, et al. Detection of clonal T-cell receptor gamma gene rearrangements with the use of the polymerase chain reaction in cutaneous lesions of mycosis fungoides and Sézary syndrome. Arch Dermatol 1995 131 (9 1027.
19. Cordel N, Lenormand B, Courville P, Helot MR, Benichou J, Joly P. Usefulness of cutaneous T-cell clonality analysis for the diagnosis of cutaneous T-cell lymphoma in patients with erythroderma. Arch Pathol Lab Med 2005 129 : 372.
20. Ormsby A, Bergfeld WF, Tubbs RR, His ED. Evaluation of a new paraffin-reactive CD7 T-cell deletion marker and a polymerase chain reaction-based T-cell receptor gene rearrangement assay: Implications for diagnosis of mycosis fungoides in community clinical practice. J Am Acad Dermatol 2001 45 (3 405.
21. Olsen E, Vonderheid E, Pimpinelli N, et al. Revisions to the staging and classification of mycosis fungoides and Sézary syndrome: a proposal of the International Society for Cutaneous Lymphomas (ISCL) and the cutaneous lymphoma task force of the European Organization of Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC). Blood 2007 110 (6 1713.
22. Sprouse JT, Werling R, Hanke D, et al. T-cell clonality determination using polymerase chain reaction (PCR) amplification of the T-cell receptor gamma-chain gene and capillary electrophoresis of fluorescently labeled PCR products. Am J Clin Pathol 2000 113 : 838.
23. Glusac EJ. Criterion by Criterion, Mycosis fungoides. Am J Dermatopathol 2003 25 (3 264.
24. Reddy K, Bhawan J. Histologic mimickers of mycosis fungoides: a review. J Cutan Pathol 2007 34 : 519.
25. Curcó N, Servitje O, Llucià M, et al. Genotypic analysis of cutaneous T-cell lymphoma: a comparative study of Southern blot analysis with polymerase chain reaction amplification of the T-cell receptor γ gene. Br J Dermatol 1997 137 : 673.
26. Delfau-Larue MH, Petrella T, Lahet C, et al. Value of clonality studies of cutaneous T lymphocytes in the diagnosis and follow-up of patients with mycosis fungoides. J Pathol 1998 184 : 185.
27. Bakels V, van Oostveen JW, Sebastian C, van der Putte J, et al. Immunophenotyping and gene rearrangement analysis provide additional criteria to differentiate between cutaneous T-cell lymphomas and pseudo-T-cell lymphomas. Am J Pathol 1997 150 (6 1941.
28. Theodorou I, Delfau-Larue HM, Bigorgne C, et al. Cutaneous T-cell infiltrates: Analysis of T-cell receptor γ gene rearrangement by polymerase chain reaction and denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis. Blood 1995 86 (1 305.
29. Klemke CD, Poenitz N, Dippel E, Hummel M, Stein H, Goerdt S. T-cell clonality of undetermined significance. Arch Dermatol 2006 142 : 393.
30. Dippel E, Klemke D, Hummel H, Stein H, Goerdt S. T-cell clonality of undetermined significance. Blood 2001 98 (1 247.
31. Zweig MH, Campbell G. Receiver-Operating Characteristic (ROC) Plots: A fundamental evaluation tool in clinical medicine. Clin Chem 1993 39 (4 561.
32. Vega F, Luthra R, Medeiros J, et al. Clonal heterogeneity in mycosis fungoides and its relationship to clinical course. Blood 2002 100 (9 3369.
33. Ponti R, Fierro MT, Quaglino P, et al. TCR γ-chain gene rearrangements by PCR-based GeneScan: Diagnostic accuracy improvement and clonal heterogeneity analysis in multiple cutaneous T-cell lymphoma samples. J Invest Dermatol 2008 128 : 1030.
34. Thurber SE, Zhang B, Kim YH, Schrijver I, Zehnder J, Kohler S. T-cell clonality analysis in biopsy specimens from two different skin sites shows high specificity in the diagnosis of patients with suggested mycosis fungoides. J Am Acad Dermatol 2007 57 (5 782.