Malignant lymphoma and lymphatic leukemia associated with myeloma-type serum proteins - 07/10/17
Abstract |
1. | 1. Ten of thirteen patients with malignant lymphoma and lymphatic leukemia, including one patient with Hodgkin's disease, all associated with abnormal serum proteins characteristic of multiple myeloma, showed a marked plasmacytosis or the presence of a large number of pyroninophilic reticulum cells and lymphoid cells in tissue sections and/or bone marrow aspirations. Intermediate forms between reticulum cells and lymphocytes on one hand, and plasma cells on the other, were frequently seen in the tissues studied. |
2. | 2. Plasmacytosis and the presence of pyroninophilic reticulum cells and lymphoid cells were insignificant features in a control group of twenty-five patients with malignant lymphoma and leukemia, associated with normal or non-specifically abnormal serum electrophoretic patterns, in whom autopsies were performed consecutively. |
3. | 3. This study suggests, that clinically and morphologically, transitional forms occur, with considerable overlapping, between the various lymphatic tumors and the plasmacytomas. |
| ☆ | This work was supported in part by an institutional grant from the National Institutes of Health. |
Vol 23 - N° 2
P. 239-249 - août 1957 Retour au numéroBienvenue sur EM-consulte, la référence des professionnels de santé.
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