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Usefulness of Bcl-2 Expression and the Expression of Cytoplasmic Immunoglobulin Light Chains in the Differentiation Between B-Cell Lymphoma and Reactive Lymphocytic Proliferations in FNA

Flow cytometry is helpful in differentiating between B-cell lymphoma (BCL) and reactive lymphocytic proliferation (RLP) in FNA biopsies. However; the presence of inconclusive surface immunoglobulin light chains (sIg LC) poses a problem. We investigated the usefulness of additional tests; namely Bcl-...

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Autores principales: Brozic, Andreja, Pohar Marinsek, Ziva, Bucek, Simon, Cemazar, Maja, Kloboves Prevodnik, Veronika
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6601031/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31146399
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms20112648
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author Brozic, Andreja
Pohar Marinsek, Ziva
Bucek, Simon
Cemazar, Maja
Kloboves Prevodnik, Veronika
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Pohar Marinsek, Ziva
Bucek, Simon
Cemazar, Maja
Kloboves Prevodnik, Veronika
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description Flow cytometry is helpful in differentiating between B-cell lymphoma (BCL) and reactive lymphocytic proliferation (RLP) in FNA biopsies. However; the presence of inconclusive surface immunoglobulin light chains (sIg LC) poses a problem. We investigated the usefulness of additional tests; namely Bcl-2 expression and expression of cytoplasmic Ig LC (cIg LC), mainly on samples with inconclusive sIg LC. Both tests were performed on 232 FNA samples from lymph nodes. Bcl-2 alone was determined qualitatively and quantitatively on 315 samples. The quantitative test was correctly positive in 76% of cases and falsely negative in 24%. The correctly positive results of the qualitative test were 11% points lower. cIg LC correctly identified 65% of BCL with dual positive sIg LC; 36% of BCL with difficult to interpret sIg LC and only 7% of BCL with negative sIg LC. The best results in differentiating between BCL and RLP were obtained when all three tests were used together. In samples with inconclusive sIg LC and additional monoclonal or polyclonal populations the κ:λ ratios did not differentiate between RLP and BCL. We propose that in case of inconclusive sIg LC Bcl-2 test is used first. The addition of cIg LC test is sensible only in cases with dual positive and difficult to interpret sIg LC.
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spelling pubmed-66010312019-07-18 Usefulness of Bcl-2 Expression and the Expression of Cytoplasmic Immunoglobulin Light Chains in the Differentiation Between B-Cell Lymphoma and Reactive Lymphocytic Proliferations in FNA Brozic, Andreja Pohar Marinsek, Ziva Bucek, Simon Cemazar, Maja Kloboves Prevodnik, Veronika Int J Mol Sci Article Flow cytometry is helpful in differentiating between B-cell lymphoma (BCL) and reactive lymphocytic proliferation (RLP) in FNA biopsies. However; the presence of inconclusive surface immunoglobulin light chains (sIg LC) poses a problem. We investigated the usefulness of additional tests; namely Bcl-2 expression and expression of cytoplasmic Ig LC (cIg LC), mainly on samples with inconclusive sIg LC. Both tests were performed on 232 FNA samples from lymph nodes. Bcl-2 alone was determined qualitatively and quantitatively on 315 samples. The quantitative test was correctly positive in 76% of cases and falsely negative in 24%. The correctly positive results of the qualitative test were 11% points lower. cIg LC correctly identified 65% of BCL with dual positive sIg LC; 36% of BCL with difficult to interpret sIg LC and only 7% of BCL with negative sIg LC. The best results in differentiating between BCL and RLP were obtained when all three tests were used together. In samples with inconclusive sIg LC and additional monoclonal or polyclonal populations the κ:λ ratios did not differentiate between RLP and BCL. We propose that in case of inconclusive sIg LC Bcl-2 test is used first. The addition of cIg LC test is sensible only in cases with dual positive and difficult to interpret sIg LC. MDPI 2019-05-29 /pmc/articles/PMC6601031/ /pubmed/31146399 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms20112648 Text en © 2019 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Brozic, Andreja
Pohar Marinsek, Ziva
Bucek, Simon
Cemazar, Maja
Kloboves Prevodnik, Veronika
Usefulness of Bcl-2 Expression and the Expression of Cytoplasmic Immunoglobulin Light Chains in the Differentiation Between B-Cell Lymphoma and Reactive Lymphocytic Proliferations in FNA
title Usefulness of Bcl-2 Expression and the Expression of Cytoplasmic Immunoglobulin Light Chains in the Differentiation Between B-Cell Lymphoma and Reactive Lymphocytic Proliferations in FNA
title_full Usefulness of Bcl-2 Expression and the Expression of Cytoplasmic Immunoglobulin Light Chains in the Differentiation Between B-Cell Lymphoma and Reactive Lymphocytic Proliferations in FNA
title_fullStr Usefulness of Bcl-2 Expression and the Expression of Cytoplasmic Immunoglobulin Light Chains in the Differentiation Between B-Cell Lymphoma and Reactive Lymphocytic Proliferations in FNA
title_full_unstemmed Usefulness of Bcl-2 Expression and the Expression of Cytoplasmic Immunoglobulin Light Chains in the Differentiation Between B-Cell Lymphoma and Reactive Lymphocytic Proliferations in FNA
title_short Usefulness of Bcl-2 Expression and the Expression of Cytoplasmic Immunoglobulin Light Chains in the Differentiation Between B-Cell Lymphoma and Reactive Lymphocytic Proliferations in FNA
title_sort usefulness of bcl-2 expression and the expression of cytoplasmic immunoglobulin light chains in the differentiation between b-cell lymphoma and reactive lymphocytic proliferations in fna
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6601031/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31146399
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms20112648
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