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CD15

CD15 is a carbohydrate adhesion molecule (not a protein) that mediates phagocytosis and chemotaxis.

CD15 synthesis is directed by FUT9 (MIM.104230) in lymphoid cells and mature granulocytes and by FUT4 (MIM.606865) in promyelocytes and monocytes. See FUT4 (MIM.104230) and FUT9.

Immunochemistry

- membranous labeling
- diffuse cytoplasmic or Golgi staining in classic Hodgkin lymphoma

Diagnosis

- Hodgkin lymphoma

  • Reed-Sternberg cells

- help differentiate between classic Hodgkin lymphoma (CD15+) and anaplastic large cell lymphoma (usually CD15-)
- help differentiate between adenocarcinoma (CD15+) and mesothelioma (CD15-)

Positive immunostaining

- Reed-Sternberg cells (classic Hodgkin lymphoma and follicular Hodgkin lymphoma)
- 15% of peripheral T cell lymphoma
- 50% of carcinomas
- 5% of B cell lymphomas

  • some B-CLL
  • some pre-pre B ALL
  • some AML
  • occasionally anaplastic large cell lymphoma (usually negative)

Negative immunostaining

- non-activated lymphocytes
- basophils
- platelets
- erythroid cells
- L& H cells in nodular lymphocyte-predominant Hodgkin lymphoma (NLPHL)
- diffuse large B cell lymphoma
- granulocytic sarcoma
- systemic mastocytosis
- pleural epithelial mesothelioma
- hairy cell leukemia
- malignant meningioma
- malignant histiocytes
- Langerhans cell histiocytosis

See also

- CD15