CD20-Positive peripheral T-cell lymphoma: report of a case after nodular sclerosis Hodgkin's disease and review of the literature.
We present a case of peripheral T-cell lymphoma co-expressing CD3 and CD20, as well as demonstrating T-cell receptor gene rearrangement, in a patient who had been diagnosed with nodular sclerosis Hodgkin's disease 5 years previously. Although 15 cases of CD20-positive T-cell neoplasms have been previously reported in the literature, this is the first report of CD20-positive T-cell lymphoma occurring subsequent to treatment of Hodgkin's disease. The current case affords an opportunity to review the rarely reported expression of CD20 in T-cell neoplasms as well as the relationship between Hodgkin's disease and subsequently occurring non-Hodgkin's lymphomas. In addition, the identification of this case supports the suggestion that the use of CD20 antibodies alone in paraffin sections may lead to an incorrect determination of cell lineage in some cases.
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Division of Pathology, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, California 91010-3000, USA. mohrmann@coh.org
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D018951:Antigens, CD20; D014408:Biomarkers, Tumor; D017252:CD3 Complex; D004273:DNA, Neoplasm; D009363:Neoplasm Proteins