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  • Title: Lymphoplasmacytic lymphoma/Waldenström macroglobulinemia associated with Hodgkin disease. A report of two cases.
    Author: Rosales CM, Lin P, Mansoor A, Bueso-Ramos C, Medeiros LJ.
    Journal: Am J Clin Pathol; 2001 Jul; 116(1):34-40. PubMed ID: 11447749.
    Abstract:
    Although the clinical course of lymphoplasmacytic lymphoma (LPL)/Waldenström macroglobulinemia (WM) is usually indolent, high-grade non-Hodgkin lymphoma may develop in a small subset of patients. We have not found any patients with LPL/WM associated with Hodgkin disease (HD) described in the literature, prompting us to report 2 cases. In case 1, the patient had LPL/WM involving bone marrow diagnosed 1 week before left supraclavicular lymph node biopsy revealed LPL/WM and classical HD. In case 2, the patient had a 15-year history of LPL/WM before classical HD developed involving bone marrow, liver, and lymph node. Both cases were positive for IgM, monotypic immunoglobulin light chain, and B-cell antigens and were CD3-. The neoplastic Hodgkin cells were CD15+, CD20+ (case 1), CD30+, CD3-, and CD45- and were negative for Epstein-Barr virus RNA. Both patients were treated with chemotherapy for HD. In case 1, clinical response was excellent with no histologic evidence of HD in subsequent biopsy specimens. In case 2, HD was progressive at last follow-up, despite therapy. Patients with LPL/WM, similar to patients with other types of low-grade B-cell lymphoma, can develop HD that may respond to chemotherapy.
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