Sequential development of histiocytic sarcoma and diffuse large B-cell lymphoma in a patient with a remote history of follicular lymphoma with genotypic evidence of a clonal relationship: A divergent (bilineal) neoplastic transformation of an indolent B-cell lymphoma in a single individual

American Journal of Surgical Pathology

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 457-463

  Wang, Endi ^a   Papalas, John ^a   Hutchinson, Charles Blake ^a   Kulbacki, Evan ^a   Huang, Qin ^a   Sebastian, Siby ^a   Rehder, Catherine ^a   Silbermins, Damian ^b   Moore, Joseph ^b   Datto, Michael ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b CITY OF HOPE NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

clonal relationship; divergent (bilineal) transformation; follicular lymphoma; Histiocytic sarcoma

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CELL TRANSFORMATION; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; FOLLICULAR LYMPHOMA; GENETICS; HISTIOCYTIC SARCOMA; HUMAN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN GENE; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; LARGE CELL LYMPHOMA; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTO ONCOGENE; SECOND CANCER;

CELL TRANSFORMATION, NEOPLASTIC; FEMALE; GENES, BCL-2; GENES, IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN; HISTIOCYTIC SARCOMA; HUMANS; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; LYMPHOMA, FOLLICULAR; LYMPHOMA, LARGE B-CELL, DIFFUSE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS, SECOND PRIMARY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 79953058511     PISSN: 01475185     EISSN: 15320979     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PAS.0b013e3182098799     Document Type: Article

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