Cutaneous anaplastic large-cell lymphoma

Di Lernia V, Viglio A, Cattania M, PauUi M. Carbamazepine-induced, CD30-I-, primary, cutaneous, anaplastic large-cell lymphoma. Arch Dermatol 2001 137(5) 675-6. 

Herbst H, Sander C, Tronnier M, et al. Absence of anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) and Epstein-Barr virus gene products in primary cutaneous anaplastic large cell lymphoma and lymphomatoid papulosis. Br J Dermatol. 1997 137(5) 680-686. 

Kadin ME, Carpenter C. Systemic and primary cutaneous anaplastic large cell lymphoma. Semin Hematol. 2003 40 244-256. 

In the WHO classification, the primary cutaneous anaplastic large cell lymphoma is a distinctive type of lymphoma of T or null phenotype involving skin in the absence of pre-existing lymphomas and is usually ALK-negative. 

Anaplastic large-cell lymphoma, T or null cell, primary cutaneous type... 

MM = multiple myeloma ATL = adult T-cell leukemia ALL = acute lymphoblastic leukemia CLL = chronic lymphocytic leukemia FCC = follicular center cell lymphoma DLC = diffuse large cell lymphoma TRB = T-cell rich B-cell lymphoma ALCL = anaplastic large cell lymphoma MALT = mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue-type lymphoma LC = lung cancer CMM = cutaneous malignant melanoma TCC = transitional cell carcinoma CSCC = cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma. 

K3. Kaudewitz, P., Stein, H., Dallenbach, F., Eckert, F., Bieber, K., Burg, G., and Braun-Falco, O., Primary and secondary cutaneous Ki-1+ (CD30+) anaplastic large cell lymphomas. Morphologic, immunohistologic, and clinical characteristics. Am. J. Pathol. 135, 359—367 (1989). 

FIGURE 6.11 GD30 labeled with antibody Ber-H2 in an anaplastic large cell lymphoma, T-cell, primary cutaneous type. Some cells exhibit paranuclear Golgi staining (center) in addition to strong membrane positivity. 

Krishnan J, Tomaszewski MM, Kao GF. Primary cutaneous CD30-positive anaplastic large cell lymphoma. Report of 27 cases./ Cutan Pathol. 1993 20(3) 193-202. 

Motley RJ, Jasani B, Ford AM, et al. Regressing atypical histiocytosis, a regressing cutaneous phase of Ki-l-positive anaplastic large cell lymphoma immunocytochemical, nucleic acid, and cytogenetic studies of a new case in view of current opinion. Cancer. 1992 70 476-483. 

Drews R, Samel A, Kadin ME. Lymphomatoid papulosis and anaplastic large cell lymphomas of the skin. Semin Cutan Med S rg. 2000 19 109-117. 

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