Онкогематология (Nov 2022)

To the issue of differential diagnosis of Hodgkin lymphoma and T-phenotype anaplastic large-cell lymphoma (ALCL)

  • A. A. Semenova,
  • I. V. Poddubnay,
  • N. A. Probatova,
  • E. A. Osmanov,
  • E. N. Sorokin

DOI
https://doi.org/10.17650/1818-8346-2009-0-2-22-27
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 0, no. 2
pp. 22 – 27

Abstract

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Hodgkin lymphoma differs from anaplastic largecell lymphoma (ALCL) (≪Hodgkin-like≫ variant) by more frequent early stage diseases revealing (46%), mediastinal lymph nodes involvement (69%), softtissue components absence, small number of cases with more than one extranodal organ involvement (15%), ALK-protein absence (100%) and tumor cell B-immunophenotype (PAX 5+). Morphological features: the expressed pironinophilia in tumor cells cytoplasm by Broshe staining in systemic ALCL (T-/0 phenotype), that is rare observed in Hodgkin lymphoma; large tumor cells in systemic ALCL (_-/0 phenotype) have more polymorphic nucleuses with small nucleoluses in comparison with more spherical cells with large nucleoluses in Hodgkin lymphona; intrasinus growth observed almost in a half of cases in systemic ALCL (T-/0 phenotype) does not revealed in Hodgkin lymphoma; tumor tissue fibrosis is a rare observation in systemic ALCL (T-/0 phenotype), while fibrosis and capsule sclerosis are frequent morphological signs in Hodgkin lymphoma.

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