Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hematopathology
Online ISSN : 1880-9952
Print ISSN : 1346-4280
ISSN-L : 1346-4280
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Detection of Minimal Bone Marrow involvement of Blastic Plasmacytoid Dendritic Cell Neoplastic Cells - CD303 immunostaining as a diagnostic tool-
Rintaro Ohe Naing Ye AungYosuke ShionoAya UtsunomiyaTakanobu KabasawaNobuyuki TamazawaYuka TamuraTomoya KatoAkane YamadaShin HasegawaKeiko AizawaKyoko InokuraSatoshi ItoTomomi ToubaiYuichi KatoTakahiko TsunodaKosuke OnamiTamio SuzukiKenichi IshizawaMitsunori Yamakawa
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2018 年 58 巻 1 号 p. 1-9

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Blastic plasmacytoid dendritic cell (pDC) neoplasm (BPDCN) is a relatively rare hematological malignancy with significantly complex clinicopathological features that are still unclear. This study aimed to analyze the clinicopathological data of BPDCN and evaluate immunohistochemical detection of minimal bone marrow (BM) involvement. In this study, we examined skin and BM lesions from 6 patients with BPDCN. Neoplastic cells tested positive for CD303 (polyclonal, 100%; monoclonal, 40%) in the skin lesions and for CD303 (polyclonal, 100%; monoclonal, 67%) in the BM clots. Although immunostaining of CD4, CD56, CD123, CD303, and TCLl detected minimal BM involvement in 3 patients, morphological identification was challenging in the BM clots stained with hematoxylin–eosin. In conclusion, our results demonstrate the significance of observing BM smears to detect neoplastic cells and that immunohistochemical examination, including CD303 antibodies, is useful to detect minimal BM involvement. This study is the first to report the expression of thymic stromal lymphopoietin (TSLP) and its receptor in BPDCN cells. Therefore, the TSLP/TSLP receptor axis may be associated with the proliferation of BPDCN, and consequently, the survival of patients.

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