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salivary gland marginal zone lymphoma

Clinical synopsis

- mostly adults (>50)
- female predominance
- recurrent episodes of salivary gland swelling

Microscopical synopsis

- plasma cell infiltration

Predisposition - Risk factors - Associations

- dysimmunity
- autoimmunity

  • Sjogren syndrome (Sjögren syndrome)

- myoepithelial sialadenitis
- gastric MALT lymphoma
- post-transplantation (#10632493#)
- chronic sclerosing sialadenitis (Kuttner tumor) (#11717546#)

Differential diagnosis

Differential diagnosis

- lymphoepithelial sialadenitis (LESA) (myoepithelial sialedenitis)
- lymphoepithelial cystic hyperplasia

  • HIV-associated lymphoepithelial cystic hyperplasia
  • non-HIV-associated lymphoepithelial cystic hyperplasia

- salivary lymphomas

  • salivary diffuse small B-cell lymphomas (DSBCL)
  • follicular lymphoma
  • mantle cell lymphoma
  • peripheral T-cell lymphoma
  • lymphoblastic lymphoma

Cytogenetics

- t(11;18)(q21;q21) (API2/MALT1 fusion gene) (30-50% of the low-grade MALT)
- t(1;14)(p21;q32) in extra-nodal MALT lymphoma
- trisomy 3 (#7718871#) and +3q (30-70% of the cases) in nodal, extra-nodal and splenic MZBCL

See also

- marginal zone lymphomas

References

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- Hsi ED, Singleton TP, Swinnen L, Dunphy CH, Alkan S. Mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue-type lymphomas occurring in post-transplantation patients. Am J Surg Pathol. 2000 Jan;24(1):100-6. PMID: #10632493#

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- Diss TC, Wotherspoon AC, Speight P, Pan L, Isaacson PG. B-cell monoclonality, Epstein Barr virus, and t(14;18) in myoepithelial sialadenitis and low-grade B-cell MALT lymphoma of the parotid gland. Am J Surg Pathol. 1995 May;19(5):531-6. PMID: #7726362#

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- Kerrigan DP, Irons J, Chen IM. bcl-2 gene rearrangement in salivary gland lymphoma. Am J Surg Pathol. 1990 Dec;14(12):1133-8. PMID: #2252103#

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- Isaacson PG, Chan JK, Tang C, Addis BJ. Low-grade B-cell lymphoma of mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue arising in the thymus. A thymic lymphoma mimicking myoepithelial sialadenitis. Am J Surg Pathol. 1990 Apr;14(4):342-51. PMID: #1690952#