Abstract
The immunologic phenotype of the lymphocytes of 100 patients with chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL) was investigated. Peripheral blood lymphocytes (PBL) were examined in all cases; in 46 patients with lymphadenopathy, a lymph node was biopsied and the histologic and immunologic patterns were assessed: 24 had a lymphocytic-lymphoplasmocytoid histology and 22 the follicular variant of lymphocytic lymphoma (mantle zone lymphoma, MZL). For comparison, lymph node suspensions from 19 patients with non-leukemic centrocytic lymphoma (CCL) were also studied. Significant differences in the PBL immunologic features were found between stage 0 and stage I patients. The phenotype of the lymphocytes of patients with lymphocytic histology was similar to that of stage 0 CLL patients, whereas major differences were found between these patients and those with mantle zone histology. This enables these patients to be recognized easily on immunologic grounds.
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