Affiliation:
1. Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill North Carolina USA
2. Department of Radiology University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill North Carolina USA
Abstract
AbstractFine needle aspiration procedure is routinely used for cytological diagnosis of nodal or extra nodal lesions. Follicular dendritic cell sarcoma (FDCS) is a rare mesenchymal neoplasm arising from follicular dendritic cells of lymphoid follicles at nodal and extranodal sites. Multimodal therapies have emerged for FDCS, necessitating its accurate pathologic diagnosis with additional ancillary testing for directing clinical management. By immunohistochemical analysis, FDCS is positive for the complement receptors CD21, CD23, and CD35. In addition, D2‐40 is reported to be highly sensitive for FDCS with a strong membranous pattern of expression. In this study, we present the cytological diagnosis of a case of FDCS in retroperitoneal lymph nodes with an emphasis on a unique staining pattern of D2‐40 which showed a strong nuclear pattern in tumor cells comparable to the membranous pattern of D2‐40 on the control tissue and other surgical cases of FDCS in our comparative study.
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