Clonal T-Cell Populations in Lymphomatoid Papulosis
- 21 August 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 315 (8) , 475-479
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm198608213150802
Abstract
Lymphomatoid papulosis is a chronic, clinically benign skin disorder that, when examined histologically, is seen to include numerous large, atypical lymphoid cells that display antigenic markers of T lymphocytes. To investigate the disparity between the clinical behavior of this disease and its malignant histologic appearance, we analyzed the DNA from skin lesions of six patients for rearrangements of beta and gamma T-cell receptor genes. Lesions from five of these patients showed between one and three clonal rearrangements for at least one T-cell receptor gene. Three separate biopsy specimens from a single patient showed different patterns of rearrangements for the beta gene in each specimen. Our results indicate that lymphomatoid papulosis is a clonal T-cell lymphoproliferative process that may possibly be multiclonal in origin.This publication has 29 references indexed in Scilit:
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