Synchronous FIP1L1-PDGFRA-positive chronic eosinophilic leukemia and T-cell lymphoblastic lymphoma: a bilineal clonal malignancy

Eur J Haematol. 2008 Jan;80(1):81-6. doi: 10.1111/j.1600-0609.2007.00973.x. Epub 2007 Nov 19.

Abstract

Several reports of successful empirical treatment of idiopathic hypereosinophilic syndrome with imatinib led to the recent identification of the FIP1L1-PDGFRA fusion gene rearrangement, which characterizes a distinctive group of chronic eosinophilic leukemias. This fusion gene can be detected in eosinophils, neutrophils, mast cells, T cells, B cells and monocytes in FIP1L1-PDGFRA-positive hypereosinophilic patients suggesting a multilineage involvement. Furthermore, the same FIP1L1-PDGFRA rearrangement was identified in patients with hypereosinophilia and atypical mast cell proliferations, raising the question of a disease with two concomitant lines of differentiation. In addition, a recent report noted two cases with the association of FIP1L1-PDGFRA-positive chronic eosinophilic leukemia and T-cell lymphoblastic lymphoma (T-LBL). We report here the only third case of synchronous chronic eosinophilic leukemia and T-LBL, both associated with a FIP1L1-PDGFRA fusion transcript, confirming the occurrence of such disease and suggesting a clonal proliferation with two lines of differentiation probably arising from a primitive multipotent medullary stem cell.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Cell Lineage*
  • Clone Cells
  • Humans
  • Hypereosinophilic Syndrome / etiology
  • Hypereosinophilic Syndrome / pathology*
  • Lymphoma, T-Cell / etiology
  • Lymphoma, T-Cell / pathology*
  • Male
  • Oncogene Proteins, Fusion / analysis*
  • Oncogene Proteins, Fusion / genetics
  • RNA, Messenger
  • Receptor, Platelet-Derived Growth Factor alpha / analysis*
  • Receptor, Platelet-Derived Growth Factor alpha / genetics
  • mRNA Cleavage and Polyadenylation Factors / analysis*
  • mRNA Cleavage and Polyadenylation Factors / genetics

Substances

  • FIP1L1 protein, human
  • Oncogene Proteins, Fusion
  • RNA, Messenger
  • mRNA Cleavage and Polyadenylation Factors
  • FIP1L1-PDGFRA fusion protein, human
  • Receptor, Platelet-Derived Growth Factor alpha