Abstract
The association between mature B-cell phenotype and KMT2A rearrangements in acute lymphoblastic leukemia is a very rare finding. It identifies a group of patients with similar clinical and biological characteristics that clearly differs from the entity B-cell lymphoblastic leukemia/lymphoma with t(v;11q23)/KMT2A-rearranged, which typically presents an immature pro B-cell phenotype. We describe the clinical-biological characteristics and disease outcome of three pediatric ALL patients with these features treated at our institution, and review 28 cases described in the literature. Most cases occur in children under 2 years-old, presenting a mature B-cell phenotype that uniformly expresses cytoplasmic and surface IgM with lambda light chain restriction, with heterogeneous co-expression of immaturity antigens. Patients do not have MYC rearrangements and all show KMT2A abnormalities, with 76% presenting t(9;11)(p21;q23)/MLLT3-KMT2A. These patients have an unfavorable clinical outcome and a 48% relapse rate. In-depth knowledge of this disease entity is needed to improve outcome.
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