Burkitt's lymphoma in AIDS: cytogenetic study
J Whang-Peng, EC Lee, H Sieverts and IT Magrath
Cytogenetic studies were done in two cases of Burkitt's lymphoma in
homosexual individuals with possible acquired immune deficiency syndrome
(AIDS). The chromosomal abnormalities found are consistent with those
previously described in the nonendemic form of Burkitt's lymphoma, with one
of the two patients having the variant translocation, t(8;22). The
production of the kappa light chain immunoglobulin by the tumor cells from
the patient having t(8;22) and the occurrence of the different sites of
translocation of the duplication of 1 q in the second patient are unusual
findings. Whether there is an increase in the incidence of the variant
translocation t(8;22) is yet to be determined.
Volume 63,
Issue 4,
pp. 818-822,
04/01/1984
Copyright © 1984 by The American Society of Hematology