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[Cell morphology and surface markers in three patients with granular lymphocyte proliferative disorders of the T-cell

M Mishima1, K Harada, T Kozono

  • 1Kagoshima City Medical Association Clinical Examination Center.

Rinsho Byori. the Japanese Journal of Clinical Pathology
|January 1, 1994
PubMed

We studied the relationship between cell morphology and surface markers in three patients with granular lymphocyte proliferative disorders. In the two patients with CD3+ CD4-CD8+ cells, there were no atypical cells, and the granules were uniformly fine: In the third patient, who had CD3+ CD4+ CD8- cells, atypical nuclei and the irregular granules in in size were observed. The granules were stained with beta-glucuronidase showing localized coarse features and made clumps, in the staining pattern characteristic of granular lymphocytes. The patient with CD4- CD8+ cells showed cytotoxic T cell phenotype, and the other DN cells type (usually associated with a CD3+ CD4- CD8- phenotype). We obtained conflicting data about OK-NK and Leu 11 antibodies, which recognized CD16 antigen.

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