Immunohistochemical expression of CD10 and t(14;18) chromosomal translocation may be indicators of follicle centre cell origin in nodal diffuse large B-cell lymphoma.
In 53 patients with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma and 20 patients with follicular lymphoma grade 3 with >75% follicular growth pattern the following was performed: 1) determination of protein expression of BCL6, CD10, MUM1/IRF4, CD138, and BCL2 by immunohistochemistry; 2) subclassification into germinal center B-cell-like (GCB) and activated B-cell-like (ABC) groups according to the results of protein expression; 3) detection of t(14;18)(q32;q21)/IgH-BCL2 and BCL6 abnormalities by fluorescent in situ hybridization in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma and follicular lymphoma grade 3 with >75% follicular growth pattern as well as in GCB and ABC groups; and 4) assessment of the influence of the analyzed characteristics and clinical prognostic factors on overall survival.
Indeed, the lack of CD5 and expression of CD10 associated with MYC rearrangement detected on interphasic nuclei could support the diagnosis of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma or Burkitt lymphoma.
Regarding CD5+CD10+ diffuse large B-cell lymphoma with a non-random chromosomal translocation of t(6;14)(q15;q32), studies on the mechanism of lymphomagenesis are needed.
Samples of lymph nodes from 53 patients with newly diagnosed diffuse large B-cell lymphoma were taken at the time of the diagnosis and immunostained for CD10, MUM1, BCL6, BCL2, FOXP1, and FOXP3.
The present case illustrates a primary cutaneous mantle cell lymphoma of the leg, with blastoid morphology and aberrant expression of CD10 and bcl-6, which was misinterpreted at the beginning as diffuse large B-cell lymphoma.
These data suggest that the phenotypic delineation by the detection of CD5 and CD10 will improve our understanding of DLBL and be helpful in a future subgrouping of DLBL.
WILL1 is a useful tool to analyze the pathogenesis of CD5 and CD10 double-positive diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, and for molecular cloning of the unique translocation breakpoints of 14q32 and 8q24 and a novel gene on 6q27.