Fwd: Re: Re[2]: interesting case

From: Maryalice Stetler-Stevenson (stetler@box-s.nih.gov)
Date: Wed Aug 02 2000 - 10:02:34 EST


Bruce,
	I will send this case to what ever address you name. Doug
Kingma is doing further studies- checking if bone marrow is involved,
etc. We will put it all together with the list mode and be glad to
send it.

	Maryalice

>Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2000 07:52:10 -0400
>From: "Bruce Davis" <DAVISB@mail.mmc.org>
>To: <darber@coh.org>, <cytometry@flowcyt.cyto.purdue.edu>
>Cc: <Karenrt@aol.com>, <stetler@box-s.nih.gov>, <jkn1@cdc.gov>,
>    <clee@chaffee.net>, <c-goolsby@nwu.edu>, <lacombe7@quaternet.fr>,
>    <Stewart@sc3101.med.buffalo.edu>, <pmccoy@UMDNJ.EDU>
>Subject: Re: Re[2]: interesting case
>
>My experience parallels Dan, but I think we are in uncharted waters
>here and have an opportunity to do some good science.	I would
>propose that through this website we establish a registry of CD5+
>lymphoproliferative disorder that are not clear cut CLL or Mantle
>Cell.	I suggest that anyone with such cases send a message to this
>listserve and also to the Clinical Cytometry Society c/o Carol
>Eckenweiler (copied above).  Relevant information should be case
>number, institution, age and sex of patient, summary of phenotypic
>findings (list mode files would be an even greater contribution),
>clinical findings and brief history if available, and salient
>morphologic findings (image files would be welcome), but to respect
>good ethical practice no information allowing ready identification
>of individual patients (no names or patient ID information) should
>be included.  Such a data base could be of value in better
>understanding the specificity of analytical cytometry in disease
>diagnosis and classification.
>
>Any support to this idea?
>
>Best regards,
>
>Bruce
>
>Bruce H. Davis, M.D.
>Maine Medical Center Research Institute
>125 John Roberts Rd., Suite #8
>South Portland, Maine	 04106
>
>207-842-7914
>FAX: 207-761-2130
>Email:  davisb@mail.mmc.org
>
>  >>> "Daniel Arber" <darber@coh.org> 07/31/00 03:14PM >>>
>
>I don't think that CD5+ SLVL is a specific pathologic diagnosis, and is
>unlikely to correlate with a tissue diagnosis of splenic marginal zone
>lymphoma.
>
>      Dan Arber
>      City of Hope
>
>      ____________________Reply Separator____________________
>      Subject:  Re: interesting case
>      Author:	 Anja Porwit <Anja.Porwit@ks.se>
>      Date:	      07/31/2000 4:59 AM
>
>
>
>
>	 Hello,
>	 CD5 can be positive in some cases of splenic lymphoma with
>	 villous
>	 lymphocytes - could that diagnosis fit the cytology of the
>	 cells in BM? Was
>	 CD11c positive? Tartrate resistant acid phosphatase?
>	 Best wishes
>	 Anna
>
>	 At 16:24 2000-07-27 -0400, you wrote:
>	 >
>	 >We have a case of an 80 year old male, with bone marrow biopsy
>	 >showing lymphoproliferative process and enlarged spleen. The
>	 bone
>	 >marrow tumor cells are reported cyclin D1 negative. The case
>	 was
>	 >submitted with a diagnosis of hairy cell. WBC is 2.2 with
>	 anemia and
>	 >thrombocytopenia. The peripheral blood is minimally involved
>	 (7% of
>	 >lymphs). The tumor cells are CD19+, CD20 moderate (not dim),
>	 CD22
>	 >moderate, Immunoglobulin moderate- kappa/IgA IgM +, CD5
>	 positive but
>	 >spectrum from dim to moderate, FMC7 + and negative for CD23,
>	 CD10,
>	 >CD103, CD25, CD38, IgD, IgG, and IgE. This doesn't look like
>	 CLL or
>	 >mantle cell. We will be following up on the marrow biopsy and
>	 further
>	 >clinical history and will let you know anything that pops up.
>	 Has
>	 >anyone had a case like this? What is your favorite diagnosis
>	 for this?
>	 >
>	 >
>	 >    Maryalice Stetler-Stevenson and Doug Kingma
>	 >Maryalice Stetler-Stevenson
>	 >Director Flow Cytometry Unit
>	 >Laboratory of Pathology, NCI, NIH
>	 >
>	 Anna Porwit
>	 Hematopathology Lab.
>	 Department of Pathology
>	 Karolinska Hospital, Stockholm
>	 Anja.Porwit@ks.se
>	 tel.:+46-851774518
>	 fax.:+46-851775843

Maryalice Stetler-Stevenson
Director Flow Cytometry Unit
Laboratory of Pathology, NCI, NIH



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