Chromosomal abnormalities in patients with non-cutaneous T-cell non-Hodgkin's lymphoma
โ Scribed by Schouten, Harry C.; Sanger, Warren G.; Weisenburger, Dennis D.; Armitage, James O.
- Book ID
- 122006501
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1990
- Weight
- 670 KB
- Volume
- 26
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0277-5379
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We describe a patient with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma treated with a chemotherapy regimen (which included bleomycin, prednisolone and low-dose methotrexate) who developed cutaneous non-caseating granulomas. We felt our patient fitted into the category of 'sarcoid-like granulomas'.
Cytogenetic studies were done in lymph node and peripheral leukemic cells from sixteen patients with non-Hodgkin lymphoma with peripheral T-cell type. Ten patients were positive for human T-cell leukemia virus I (HTLV-I) proviral DNA in tumour cells and six were negative. The former group had a high