title: Histological progression of follicular lymphoma associated with p53 mutation and rearrangement of the C-MYC gene.
abstract: Follicular lymphoma is a low grade malignant lymphoma. However, some follicular lymphomas undergo histological transformation into higher grade malignant lymphomas. We recently encountered a diffuse large cell lymphoma which seemed to have progressed from a follicular lymphoma and which finally transformed into a small non-cleaved lymphoma. Each stage of the histological transformation was accompanied by increasing clinical grades of malignancy. It was suspected that in our patient a follicular lymphoma initially developed due to rearrangement of the BCL2 gene, and then underwent histological transformation into a diffuse large cell lymphoma, which was associated with p53 mutation. Subsequent rearrangement of C-MYC promoted the histological transformation of this diffuse large cell lymphoma into a small non-cleaved lymphoma. Our findings indicate that p53 mutation and rearrangement of C-MYC are involved in the histological transformation of follicular lymphomas into more advanced lymphomas.
authors.affiliation: Department of Internal Medicine, Hiroshima University, Japan.
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Takimoto
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Takafuta
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Imanaka
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kuramoto
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Sasaki
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Nanba
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D002471:Cell Transformation, Neoplastic / Q000235:genetics / Q000473:pathology; D015321:Gene Rearrangement; D016259:Genes, myc / Q000235:genetics*; D016158:Genes, p53 / Q000235:genetics*; D006801:Humans; D008224:Lymphoma, Follicular / Q000235:genetics / Q000473:pathology*; D016403:Lymphoma, Large B-Cell, Diffuse / Q000235:genetics / Q000473:pathology*; D008228:Lymphoma, Non-Hodgkin / Q000235:genetics / Q000473:pathology*; D008297:Male; D009154:Mutation