Nobuhiko Ohnishi, Katsuyoshi Takata, Tomoko Miyata-Takata, Yasuharu Sato, Akira Tari, Yuka Gion, Mai Noujima-Harada, Kohei Taniguchi, Tetsuya Tabata, Keina Nagakita, Shizuma Omote, Hiroyuki Takahata, Masaya Iwamuro, Hiroyuki Okada, Yoshinobu Maeda, Hiroyuki Yanai, Tadashi Yoshino
Follicular lymphoma (FL) shows co-expression of B-cell lymphoma 2 (BCL2) and CD10, whereas downexpression of CD10 is occasionally experienced in gastrointestinal (GI) FL with unknown significance. Gastrointestinal FL is a rare variant of FL, and its similarity with mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue lymphoma was reported. We investigated the clinicopathological and genetic features of CD10 downexpressed (CD10(down) ) GI-FL. The diagnosis of CD10(down) FL was carried out with a combination of pathological and molecular analyses...
November 2016: Cancer Science