High Grade B-Cell Lymphoma with MYC & BCL2 Gene Rearrangements

Siba El Hussein, MD
2 min readSep 24, 2022

Lesson From the Friday Unknowns

Lymphoma cells are of intermediate-large size. Mitotic division figures are present and high number within the lymphomatous proliferation. Approximately half of the lymphomatous proliferation has follicular pattern and at least half has diffuse pattern. In most areas of follicular lymphoma, the neoplastic follicles comprise sheets of centroblasts, while in a few areas of follicular lymphoma, the neoplastic follicles comprise a mixed population of centrocytes and centroblasts (grade 3A and grade 1–2).

Immunoperoxidase stained sections show positive immunoperoxidase staining of lymphoma cells for CD20, PAX-5, BCL6, Bcl-2, CD10 and MYC protein, with non-immunoreactivity of lymphoma cells for CD3, CD5, CD43, MUM-1, CD23, CD30 and cytokeratin AE1/AE3. Proliferation of lymphoma cells, as determined by immunohistologic staining for Ki-67, is high, with percentage of Ki-67 positive cells ranging from 70% to 100%. The follicular pattern…

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Siba El Hussein, MD
Siba El Hussein, MD

Written by Siba El Hussein, MD

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