Primary cutaneous marginal IgG4 lymphoma and Rosai-Dorfman's disease coexisting in several lesions of the same patient

Am J Dermatopathol. 2015 May;37(5):413-8. doi: 10.1097/DAD.0000000000000249.

Abstract

We report the unique association of primary cutaneous marginal zone B-cell lymphoma and Rosai-Dorfman disease (RDD)-type histiocytic infiltrates involving the same lesions. The patient was an 82-year-old woman with 3 long-standing, well-circumscribed firm erythematous to brownish plaques on her left arm, right scapular area, and lumbosacral area. Histopathologic examination disclosed a dermal and subcutaneous nodular lymphoplasmacytic infiltrate with evidence of germinal center colonization and light-chain restriction and sheets of S-100 CD68-positive histiocytes with ample pale cytoplasm and occasional emperipolesis of lymphocytes. The neoplastic plasma cells expressed immunoglobulin (Ig) G4. A review of 14 examples of cutaneous RDD showed a substantial number of IgG4-positive cells in only 3 of them, and a review of 8 primary cutaneous marginal zone B-cell lymphomas disclosed only 2 with significant IgG4 expression. The coexistence of lymphomas and RDD has been rarely reported in the literature but only seldom involving the same lymph node and-to the best of our knowledge-never in the skin.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Aged, 80 and over
  • Biomarkers, Tumor / analysis*
  • Biopsy
  • Female
  • Histiocytosis, Sinus / complications*
  • Histiocytosis, Sinus / immunology
  • Histiocytosis, Sinus / pathology
  • Humans
  • Immunoglobulin G / analysis*
  • Immunohistochemistry
  • Lymph Nodes / immunology
  • Lymph Nodes / pathology
  • Lymphoma, B-Cell, Marginal Zone / complications*
  • Lymphoma, B-Cell, Marginal Zone / immunology
  • Lymphoma, B-Cell, Marginal Zone / pathology
  • Skin / immunology
  • Skin / pathology
  • Skin Neoplasms / complications*
  • Skin Neoplasms / immunology
  • Skin Neoplasms / pathology

Substances

  • Biomarkers, Tumor
  • Immunoglobulin G