Clonal T-cell proliferations occasionally occur in Kikuchi-Fujimoto disease.
Hum Pathol
; 138: 103-111, 2023 08.
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ABSTRACT
Kikuchi-Fujimoto disease (KFD) is a benign self-limiting disorder that frequently leads to swelling of cervical lymph nodes in young women. It has a characteristic histologic appearance with sharply demarcated foci containing apoptotic debris, histiocytes, and proliferating large T-cells. Since in the past years, core needle biopsies have been increasingly used for diagnostic work-up, a small biopsy of the pathognomonic proliferating T-cell foci may lead to misinterpretation as a large T-cell neoplasia. The aim of the present study therefore was to analyze how frequently clonal T-cell receptor (TCR) amplificates may be obtained in KFD using a commonly used TCR gamma rearrangement clonality assay. In 88 KFD cases, TCR gamma clonality assays could be successfully applied. Clonal peaks of TCR gamma in front of a polyclonal background were observed in 15 cases (18%). The investigated clinical parameters (age, gender, extent of infiltration of the lymph node, percentage of proliferative compartment) did not differ between patients with detectable TCR gamma clones from those patients who had polyclonal TCR gamma results. Our study therefore demonstrates that clonal TCR gamma amplificates may be obtained in any type of KFD and that an over-interpretation of clonal T-cell proliferates in diagnostically equivocal material should be avoided.
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Linfadenite Histiocítica Necrosante
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Vasos Linfáticos
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Diagnostic_studies
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Female
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Humans
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En
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Hum Pathol
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2023
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Article