Roberta Sciarra, Michele Merli, Caterina Cristinelli, Marco Lucioni, Silvia Zibellini, Roberta Riboni, Daniela Furlan, Silvia Uccella, Caterina Zerbi, Benedetta Bianchi, Manuel Gotti, Virginia Valeria Ferretti, Chiara Varraso, Sara Fraticelli, Tanja Lazic, Irene Defrancesco, Barbara Mora, Laura Libera, Alessandro Mazzacane, Federico Carpi, Martha Berliner, Giuseppe Neri, Ettore Rizzo, Federica De Paoli, Fausto Sessa, Francesco Passamonti, Marco Paulli, Luca Arcaini
Hepatitis C virus (HCV)-associated diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) displays peculiar clinicopathological characteristics, but its molecular landscape is not fully elucidated. In this study, we investigated the clinicopathological and molecular features of 54 patients with HCV-associated DLBCL. The median age was 71 years. An underlying marginal zone lymphoma component was detected in 14.8% of cases. FISH analysis showed rearrangements involving BCL6 in 50.9% of cases, MYC in 11.3% and BCL2 in 3...
March 5, 2024: British Journal of Haematology