Jønsson V, Hippe E, Clemmensen OJ, Badsberg E, Videbaek A. Malignant centroblastic-histiocytic lymphoma of the skin.
SCANDINAVIAN JOURNAL OF HAEMATOLOGY 1982;
29:295-8. [PMID:
6758107 DOI:
10.1111/j.1600-0609.1982.tb00597.x]
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Abstract
A mixed B-cell type centroblastic lymphoma with extraordinarily many histiocytes in a 68-year-old man is reported. Multiple skin tumours were the only clinical manifestation during the first 5 months. The disease then progressed to the lymph nodes, spleen, and parenchymal organs, but the bone marrow remained unaffected until death, 11 months after the onset of signs. C3d receptors were the only surface markers of the centroblasts. The histiocytes were normal with respect to morphology, muramidase staining, and Fc and C3b receptors. This highly unusual spread from skin to lymphoid and parenchymal organs is discussed in the light of lymphoid cell kinetics.
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