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Objective To study the clinical characteristics of acute leukemia(AL) patients with cross‐lineage antigen expression . Methods Patients were diagnosed and classified by morphology ,cytochemistry and immunology assay ,and prognostic acting factor were also analyzed .Results According to FAB standards ,acute myeloid leukemia(AML)‐M2 ,acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL)‐L2 and no‐classified type were common in 320 patients with cross‐lineage antigen expression .The immunophenotype with B and my‐eloid mixed expression was the most common(176 cases) ,followed by cross expression of antigen T and myeloid(131 cases) ,and the co‐expression of B ,T and myeloid antigen was found in only 10 cases .In lymphoid antigenpositive AML(Ly+ AML) ,CD19 anti‐gen was the most common among B lineage ,CD7 was the most common in T lineage .In myeloid antigen positive ALL(My+ ALL) , CD33 was the most common myeloid antigen .Forty‐five cases were with mixed expression of myeloid antigen and CD56 expression . Correlation existed between CD7 and CD34(P< 0 .05) ,CD19 and CD34(P< 0 .05) .There were 9 patients with CD34 ,CD7 and CD19 co‐expression ,7 patients with CD34 ,CD7 and CD56 co‐express .In Ly+ AML patients ,23 cases were with recurrent chromo‐some abnormality ,including 11 cases with t(8 ;21)(q22 ;q22) ,RUNX1‐RUNX1T1 ,3 cases with t(15;17)(q22 ;q11‐12) ,PML/RAR ,6 cases with bone marrow eosinophilia inv(16)(p13 ;q22) ,CBF beta /MYH11 ,and 3 cases with t(9;11)(p22;q23) , MLLT3‐MLL .In My+ ALL ,15 patients were with recurrent chromosome abnormality ,including 9 cases of B‐ALL with t(9;22) (q34 ;q11 .2) ,BCR‐ABL1 ,3 cases of B‐ALL with t(v ;11q23) ,MLL rearrangement ,and 3 cases of T‐ALL with 14q11 .2 .Among the presence of reproducible chromosomal abnormalities in AL ,the antigen expression of mistranslation was still with a certain fea‐ture:Ly+ AML patients often mistranslated CD19 ,CD56 ,CD2 ,and My+ ALL patients often mistranslated CD13 and CD33 .Com‐pared with the lymphoid antigennegative AML(Ly - ALL) group ,CD7+ AML group ,CD19+ AML group and CD56+ AML group had significant difference in survival curves(with P value of 0 .01 ,0 .02 and 0 .02) .There was no significant difference in survival curves between myeloid antigen negative ALL(My -ALL) group and CD13/33+ ALL group(P<0 .05) .CD7 was also positive com‐monly(53 cases) and related with CD34(P<0 .05) .So it significantly influenced the prognosis .If patients were with co‐expression of CD34 ,CD7 and CD19 ,the prognosis could be worse .Conclusion AL with cross‐lineage antigen expression might be a special type and confirmed by immunotype .Furthermore ,expression types of differentiation antigen could be critical for prognosis and sur‐vival .
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Objective To evaluate the utility of flow cytometry (FCM) in diagnosis and subclassification of non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL). Methods The samples of lymph nodes biopsy from 59 cases clinically suspected of NHL were detected by flow cytometry; and clonal lymphocytes and their immunophenotypes were identified analyzed. The concordance between the results of flow cytometry and histopathology was analyzed. Results Among the 59 cases, flow cytometry was able to identify aberrant clonal lymphocytes in 24 of 28 NHL cases identified by histopathology, the neoplastic lymphocytes ranged from 4.28 % to 89.10 %; 23 cases were diagnosed as B-NHL and 1 case was diagnosed as T-NHL. Compared with histopathology, the accuracy of FCM was 85.71% in diagnosis of NHL. The specificity and sensitivity of FCM was 100 % and 92% in diagnosis of B-NHL. The accuracy of flow cytometry immunophenotyping in classification of 24 cases of NHL was consistent with that of histopathology. Conclusion Flow cytometry could be an ancillary technique in diagnosis of NHL by identifying aberrant clonal lymphocytes, and enable identification of B-NHL subtype.