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Primary effusion lymphoma in Taiwan shows two distinctive clinicopathological subtypes with rare human immunodeficiency virus association.

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AIMS:To investigate the clinicopathological and molecular features of primary effusion lymphoma (PEL) in Taiwan and the association with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), human herpesvirus 8 (HHV8) and Epstein-Barr virus (EBV). METHODS AND RESULTS:We investigated retrospectively 26 cases with a median age of 76.5. Only one (4%) patient was infected with HIV. Cytologically, all lymphoma cells revealed typical immunoblastic to plasmablastic morphology. Immunohistochemically, HHV8 was positive in eight (32%) tumours and negative in 17 (68%) cases. All 23 tested cases examined were of the non-germinal-centre B cell phenotype. MYC proto-oncogene (MYC) and Epstein-Barr encoding mRNA (EBER) were positive in 43% (nine of 21) and 17% (four of 23) cases, respectively. Immunoglobulin heavy chain (IGH), B cell lymphoma (BCL)2, BCL6 and MYC were rearranged in 71%, 11%, 12% and 18% cases, respectively. By univariate analysis, the overall survival (OS) was associated statistically with MYC expression (P = 0.012) and BCL2 rearrangement (P = 0.035), but not with the others. By multivariate analysis, no factor was statistically significant. Compared to the HHV8-negative cases, the HHV8-positive cases were mainly of the plasmablastic immunophenotype expressing CD30 and CD138, and with a less frequent expression of pan-B cell markers. CONCLUSIONS:Apart from the phenotypical difference, our HHV8-positive neoplasms were not distinct from the HHV8-negative group. Literature review of 256 cases, including our cases, revealed that HHV8-positive cases were associated more frequently with HIV and EBV infection, with rare MYC rearrangement, and a poorer prognosis than HHV8-negative cases. We propose to name the HHV8-positive cases as 'classical' or 'type I PEL' and the HHV8-negative cases as 'type II PEL', stressing the similarities and the distinctive features between these two groups.

journal_name

Histopathology

journal_title

Histopathology

authors

Chen BJ,Wang RC,Ho CH,Yuan CT,Huang WT,Yang SF,Hsieh PP,Yung YC,Lin SY,Hsu CF,Su YZ,Kuo CC,Chuang SS

doi

10.1111/his.13449

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2018-05-01 00:00:00

pages

930-944

issue

eissn

0309-0167

issn

1365-2559

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Primary effusion lymphoma in Taiwan shows two distinctive clinicopathological subtypes with rare human immunodeficiency virus association.