Prethymic Cytoplasmic CD3 Negative Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia or Acute Undifferentiated Leukemia: A Case Report

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Cannizzo, Elisa
Carulli, Giovanni
Del Vecchio, Luigi
Azzarà, Antonio
Galimberti, Sara
Ottaviano, Virginia
Petrini, Mario
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Cannizzo, Elisa, Giovanni Carulli, Luigi Del Vecchio, Antonio Azzarà, Sara Galimberti, Virginia Ottaviano, Frederic Preffer, and Mario Petrini. 2011. Prethymic cytoplasmic CD3 negative acute lymphoblastic leukemia or acute undifferentiated leukemia: a case report. Case Reports in Hematology 2011:230568.Abstract
Acute undiffentiated leukemia (AUL) is an acute leukemia with no more than one membrane marker of any given lineage. Blasts often express HLA-DR, CD34, and/or CD38 and may be positive for terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase (TdT). The expression of CD34, HLA-DR, and CD38 has been shown in pro-T-ALL, although in this case, blasts should also express CD7 and cyCD3. However, some cases of T-ALL without CD3 in the cytoplasm and all TCR chain genes in germ line configuration are reported, features that fit well with a very early hematopoietic cell. We report a case of acute leukemia CD34+/−HLADR+CD7+CD38+cyCD3− in which a diagnosis of AUL was considered. However the blasts were also positive for CD99 and TCR delta gene rearrangement which was found on molecular studies. Therefore a differential diagnosis between AUL and an early cyCD3 negative T-ALL was debated.Other Sources
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