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Pathology of White Blood Cells, Lymph Nodes, Spleen, and Thymus (Part 2 of 4) Flashcards

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What are the three categories of White cell neoplasia?

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lymphoid neoplasia, myeloid neoplasia, and histiocytic neoplasia

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what are the five broad types of lymphoid neoplasia?

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B-cell, T-cell, Plasma cell, Hodgkin, NK cell

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what are the 3 types of myeloid neoplasia?

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Acute myeloid leukemia, myelodysplasia, myeloproliferative neoplasia

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what is an example of histiocytic neoplasia?

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Langerhans Cell histiocytosis

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what viral infections are common contributors to white cell neoplasms? (3)

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HTLV-1, EBV, HHV-8

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what chronic bacterial infection is a common contributor to white cell neoplasms?

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H. pylori infections

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what is the difference between leukemia and lymphoma?

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leukemia involves the bone marrow/blood and lymphoma involves the lymph nodes

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what is the most common cancer in kids?

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acute lymphoblastic leukemia

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how does ALL present?/ symptoms (6)

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sudden onset of symptoms/ fever, fatigue, bleeding/bruising, pain, headache, n/v

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What occurs in acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL)?

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there are mutations to lymphoid stem cells to create a “leukemic stem cell” with self renewal capacity and simultaneous maturation arrest–> the lymphoid stem cells are shunted to form lymphoblasts

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what might happen if the bone marrow is densely “packed” with leukemic cells?

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they may not aspirate “sludgy”

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why do you see a fever in ALL?

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you’ve wiped out the granulocytes/neutrophils and there is an opportunistic infection

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why do you see fatigue in ALL patients?

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they are very anemic

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why do you see bleeding/bruising in ALL patients?

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they have no platelets

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why do patients with ALL experience pain?

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there is expansion of the leukemic cells inside their bone marrow

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why do patients with ALL experience headaches, nausea/vomiting?

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there are CNS manifestations bc these leukemia will go to the CNS- so there can actually be meningeal involvement

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What is the morphology of ALL cells?

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large cells, dark nuclear chromatin, inconspicuous nucleoli, scant agranular cytoplasm

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When trying to diagnose a patient with ALL, what would you look for on flow cytometry?

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TdT: if positive you can identify that these are prolymphocytes; because either B cells or T cells can have ALL, you need to determine whether it is a B cell or a T cell ALL; B-cell: CD 19, CD20, CD10, Pax-5; T cell: CD1-5, CD7, and CD8

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what is the general treatment for ALL?

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chemotherapy, intrathecal chemotherapy

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who has a better prognosis when diagnosed with ALL? (4)

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age 2-10, low peripheral WBC count, hyperdiploidy, t(12;21)

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who has a worse prognosis when diagnosed with ALL? (3)

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age <2, adolescence/adulthood, high WBC count (>100K)

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what is the common demographic for chronic lymphocytic/small lymphocytic lymphoma (CLL//SLL)?

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patients are typically older and may be asymptomatic or fatigued

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what does a typical peripheral smear show in a patient with CLL/SLL?

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lymphocytosis with small mature lymphocytes; smudge cells may be seen

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what are the particular features that present in CLL/SLL? (think flow cytometry)

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By flow, a clonal (kappa-restricted) population of CD19, CD5+ cells

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what is the aggressive phenomena associated with CLL/SLL?
richter transformation
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what drives the transformation of CLL/SLL into an aggressive tumor?
new mutations involving TP53 or MYC
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what is follicular lymphoma?
a pattern of neoplastic lymphocytes that expand from the follicle center (germinal center)
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what does follicular lymphoma resemble and what does this mean?
resembles follicular hyperplasia; so further testing is needed
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what are the vast majority of follicular lymphomas associated with? (translocation wise)
a classic translocation: t(14;18)
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what does the translocation (14;18) do?
places an IgH gene next to a BCL-2
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what is bcl-2?
an apoptosis suppressor
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what happens when bcl-2 is placed next to IgH?
there is overexpression of bcl-2- so you get less apoptosis- you have now enabled IgH to drive a neoplastic process
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how can you stain for something you think is follicular lymphoma?
there will be a positive brown staining for bcl-2
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How is follicular lymphoma graded?
graded from 1-3; higher grades correlate with higher proportion of large centroblasts
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what is grade 3 follicular lymphoma related to?
diffuse large B cell lymphoma
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what is diffuse large b cell lymphoma?
when large masses form in the lymph nodes or in organs like the spleen; aggressive and fast growing
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what are the two different types of diffuse large b cell lymphomas?
immunodeficiency-related LCL and primary effusion lymphoma
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what are immunodeficiency-related LCLs linked to?
EBV activation
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what is primary effusion lymphoma associated with and where does it occur?
associated with HHV-8 and it occurs in plural fluid
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what somatic mutation is associated with DLBCLs?
BCL-6
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what is the classic morphology of Burkitt lymphoma?
the neoplasm is a B cell neoplasm and it grows in this diffuse sheet
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what is the cellular composition in Burkitt lymphoma?
diffuse growth of intermediate-sized cells with numerous tingible body macrophages
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what translocation is associated with Burkitt lymphoma?
8;14 translocation (IgH/MYC)
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what occurs in an 8;14 translocation?
it allows for an upregulated MYC oncogene to be immediately adjacent to IgH
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what marker can be used when trying to diagnose Burkitt lymphoma?
Ki-67 proliferation marker
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what are the three different types of Burkitt lymphoma?
endemic african burkitt lymphoma, sporadic, and HIV-related
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what is the endemic african burkitt lymphoma associated with??
EBV; mandibular and maxillary growth
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what is mantle cell lymphoma?
malignancy of B cells resembling those in the mantle layer
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what translocation is associated with mantle cell lymphoma?
t(11;14)
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what occurs in the translocation 11;14?
places an IgH next to cyclin D1
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what is the driver for mantle cell lymphoma?
cyclin D1
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what can you stain for to make the diagnosis of mantle cell lymphoma?
an immunostain for cyclin D1
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where can marginal zone lymphomas arise?
in LNs or in extranodal sites (MALT-omas)
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what are extranodal MALTomas associated with?
chronic inflammation
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what is a gastric maltoma associated with?
H pylori infection
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what can hashimoto thyroiditis result in?
mantle zone lymphoma of the thyroid
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what can be associated with salivary gland marginal zone lymphoma?
chronic sialadenitis
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what does the bone marrow look like in a patient with hairy cell leukemia?
back-to-back cells; the hairy cytoplasm keeps a distance between cells
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what effect does hairy cell leukemia have on the bone marrow?
it creates reticulin fibrosis, which can lead to a dry tap on bone marrow aspiration- so patients with hairy cell leukemia have low blood counts
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what is a common side effect of hairy cell leukemia?
splenic involvement is very striking with typical massive splenomegaly
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what are the markers for hairy cell leukemia?
CD25 and CD11c
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CLL/SLL will show particular features; what is an interesting marker that you can see in association with this particular neoplasm?
CD5
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How can you differentiate between follicular lymphoma and follicular hyperplasia?
flow cytometry isn't a bad idea, but there is something more commonly done: genetic testing for translocation 14;18
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what is the purpose of tingible-body macrophages?
they clear apoptotic debris due to the extreme cell turn over
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What do patients with hairy cell leukemia present with?
splenomegaly but mostly pancytopenia
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what can flow cytometry demonstrate?
clonality and light chain restriction

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