✦ LIBER ✦

A unique case of IgD-only splenic marginal-zone lymphoma with mutated immunoglobulin genes: Ontogenetic implications

✍ Scribed by Theodora Papadaki; Kostas Stamatopoulos; Theodore Mavrommatis; Achilles Anagnostopoulos; Dimitra Anagnostou

Publisher: Elsevier Science
Year: 2008
Tongue: English
Weight: 453 KB
Volume: 32
Category: Article
ISSN: 0145-2126
DOI: 10.1016/j.leukres.2007.03.013

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

Splenic marginal zone lymphoma (SMZL) is a rare indolent lymphoma subtype which accounts for less than 1% of all non-Hodgkin's lymphomas. We here report a unique case of IgD-only SMZL with mutated immunoglobulin variable region genes and discuss possible ontogenetic derivation.