In:
Acta Dermato-Venereologica, Medical Journals Sweden AB, Vol. 89, No. 2 ( 2008-12-10), p. 172-174
Kurzfassung:
A 39-year-old man presented with a rapidly growing unilateral painless nodule on the right cheek. Histopathological examination and peripheral blood analysis both showed a population of T-cell large granular lymphocytes, which were CD1+, CD2+, CD5+, CD7+ and CD16+, with expression of cutaneous lymphocyte-associated antigen. Further laboratory examination revealed severe neutropaenia, relative lymphocytosis and a clonally rearranged T-cell receptor. The cutaneous manifestation of T-cell large granular lymphocytic leukaemia is very rare. In this particular patient, however, it was instrumental in establishing the diagnosis and may have been enabled by the expression of cutaneous lymphocyte-associated antigen on the cell surface.
Materialart:
Online-Ressource
ISSN:
1651-2057
,
0001-5555
DOI:
10.2340/00015555-0589
Sprache:
Unbekannt
Verlag:
Medical Journals Sweden AB
Publikationsdatum:
2008
ZDB Id:
1492617-9