Sequential development of peripheral T-cell lymphoma in the course of chronic myelogenous leukemia.
A patient is described with chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) and an unusual karyotype 46XY,t(Y;12) (q11;p12), whose clinical course was complicated by T-cell lymphoma 5 years later. At that time bone marrow cells showed an additional karyotypic abnormality 46XY,t(Y;12) (q11;p12) del(7) (pter-p21), which remained unchanged until blastic transformation of the CML 8 months later. The bone marrow biopsy specimen, which revealed the blastic transformation of the CML, also showed evidence for localization of T-cell lymphoma. This case, added to two previously reported cases of the concurrence of CML and T-cell lymphoma, suggests a relationship between the two diseases, which is discussed.
Blonk
M C
MC
Department of Haematology, Free University Hospital, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
van der Valk
P
P
Beverstock
G C
GC
Ossenkoppele
G J
GJ
D000328:Adult; D001853:Bone Marrow / Q000473:pathology; D002869:Chromosome Aberrations / Q000235:genetics; D002872:Chromosome Deletion; D025063:Chromosome Disorders; D006801:Humans; D007621:Karyotyping; D015464:Leukemia, Myelogenous, Chronic, BCR-ABL Positive / Q000235:genetics / Q000473:pathology*; D008198:Lymph Nodes / Q000473:pathology; D008223:Lymphoma / Q000473:pathology*; D008297:Male; D009378:Neoplasms, Multiple Primary / Q000473:pathology*; D012729:Sex Chromosome Aberrations / Q000235:genetics; D013601:T-Lymphocytes / Q000473:pathology; D014998:Y Chromosome