SLE and ????

Anna Porwit-MacDonald (anpo@mb.ks.se)
Fri, 15 Aug 1997 09:45:50 +0200

Hi ALL;
I would like to thank everybody who gave me comments on a case of a boy with
SLE and CD2+CD56+Dr- cells in BM, I asked for help with.
Fortunately I have found one similar case in the literature published by
Prieto et al. J.Clin:Path 1996,49,1011-1013.
In a new material I got yesterday there is a progression of disease with 40%
blasts in the BM (immunophenotype the same I gave previously) and spleen
increasing in size. Cytogenetics is normal.
I have no other choice than to classify the case as an (acute???) leukemia
of NK cells.
Best wishes
Anna

Anna Porwit-MacDonald, MD, PhD
Haematopathology Lab.,
Karolinska Hospital, Stockholm