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In order to determine the cellular immunestate in patients with multiple myeloma, T-cellsubsets in peripheral blood from 25 cases withmultiple myeloma were measured with SPA-Ig di-rect rosette assay, the activity of interleukin-2 wasinvestigated by using mice thymocyte proliferationassay. The results showed that in multiple myelo-ma, OKT_3~+, OKT_4~+ cell decreased significantly.OKT_6~+ cell increased markedly and the OKT_4/OKT_8 ratio was reduced. The activity of IL-2 in pe-ripheral blood lymphocytes of the patients withmultiple myeloma increased sharply and there wasa significant difference between the active diseaseand the remission disease. The activity of IL-2 inthe remission disease was lower than that in theactive disease but higer than that of the controlgroup. In conclusion, this study indicated thatthere were imbalance of T-cell subsets and abnor-mality of IL-2 production in patients with multiplemyeloma. The data might suggest that there wasdisorder of the cellular immunity in the course ofthe disease.
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35 patients with malignant lymphoma and 18 patients with multiple mycloma were investigated for expression of OKT10in pherpheral blood. A significant incresing of OKT 10 positive cells was found in most of patients (26/30, 16/18 cases respectively) with Non-Hodgekin's Lymphoma(NIIL) and Multiple myeloma(MM). The inereasing of OKT10 positive cells is related to the degrce of malignaency of patients with NIIL from low-grade to high-wade. No relationship between serum beta-2-microglobulin and OKT10 positive cells in patients with NIIL and MM was also found.
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One male patient is reported. This patient was admitted to our hospital tecause of chilling, fever, swelling of gingiva, ulcer formation, pain, swelling of lymphnodes in the whole baby for 45 days, and inefficacious prednisone. Reactive proliferation was detected with inguinal lymphonodi biopsy, resulting in the misdiagnosis of gingivostomatitis and septicemia. The patient died of intracranial hemorrhage 14 days after admittion. The multiple manifestations of oral soft tissue lymphosarcoma and misdiagnosis are discussed.