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  • Title: Comparative ultrastructural study of cytotoxic granules in nasal natural killer cell lymphoma, intestinal T-cell lymphoma, and anaplastic large cell lymphoma.
    Author: Sadahira Y, Akisada K, Sugihara T, Hata S, Uehira K, Muraki N, Manabe T.
    Journal: Virchows Arch; 2001 Mar; 438(3):280-8. PubMed ID: 11315625.
    Abstract:
    Comparative immunohistochemical and ultrastructural studies were performed on five nasal natural killer (NK) cell lymphoma cases, two intestinal T-cell lymphoma cases, and eight anaplastic large cell lymphoma (ALCL) cases to clarify morphological differences in cytotoxic granules among these cytotoxic lymphomas. Nasal NK-cell lymphomas and intestinal T-cell lymphomas had fine azurophilic granules and displayed dot-like immunostaining of granzyme B- and T-cell intracellular antigen 1 (TIA-1), predominantly in the central area of the cytoplasm. Ultrastructurally, these NK-cell lymphomas and intestinal T-cell lymphomas had two types of cytotoxic granules, type-I granules (dense core granules) and type-II granules (multivesicular bodies), which have been demonstrated in normal large granular lymphocytes in peripheral blood. However, ALCLs did not have azurophilic granules, and only type-II cytotoxic granules were found ultrastructurally, even though they showed similar dot-like immunostained patterns of granzyme B and TIA-1, as seen in NK-cell lymphomas and intestinal T-cell lymphomas. Immunoelectron microscopy revealed that TIA-1 was primarily located at the periphery of the cytoplasmic granules in the NK-cell lymphoma and ALCL cases. These findings suggest that malignant lymphomas with a cytotoxic phenotype can be divided into two types, (azurophilic granule)+, (type-I granule)+, (type-II granule)+ lymphomas and (azurophilic granule)-, (type-I granule)-, (type-II granule)+ lymphomas.
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