Patient characteristics and clinical findings
. | Total cases (N = 100), n (%) . |
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Male/female, n | 53/47 |
Age at diagnosis, range (median), y | 1-78 (21) |
EBV-infected cell type | |
CD4 | 25 (25) |
CD8 | 13 (13) |
CD56 | 28 (28) |
γδT | 3 (3) |
CD56− NK | 2 (2) |
CD4+CD8 | 6 (6) |
CD4+CD56 | 4 (4) |
CD8+CD56 | 1 (1) |
CD4+CD8+CD56 | 6 (6) |
Others | 7 (7) |
NA | 5 (5)* |
Clonality of the infected cells | |
Monoclonal | 54 (54) |
Oligoclonal | 7 (7) |
No clonality | 4 (4) |
NA | 35 (35) |
Symptoms and signs at diagnosis | |
Fever | 85 (85) |
Hepatosplenomegaly | 64 (70) |
Lymphadenopathy | 48 (53) |
Cardiac dysfunction | 8 (9) |
Aneurysm | 8 (9) |
Gastrointestinal symptom | 7 (8) |
Neurological symptoms | 7 (8) |
Vasculitis | 6 (7) |
Uveitis | 4 (4) |
HLH | 24 (26) |
HMB | 25 (25) |
HV-like eruption | 9 (9) |
Laboratory findings | |
Neutropenia (<1000/µL) | 14 (16) |
Anemia (<9 g/dL) | 12 (14) |
Thrombocytopenia (<10 × 104/µL) | 27 (30) |
High ALT (>128 U/L) | 27 (31) |
High sIL-2R (>2400 U/mL) | 17 (27) |
. | Total cases (N = 100), n (%) . |
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Male/female, n | 53/47 |
Age at diagnosis, range (median), y | 1-78 (21) |
EBV-infected cell type | |
CD4 | 25 (25) |
CD8 | 13 (13) |
CD56 | 28 (28) |
γδT | 3 (3) |
CD56− NK | 2 (2) |
CD4+CD8 | 6 (6) |
CD4+CD56 | 4 (4) |
CD8+CD56 | 1 (1) |
CD4+CD8+CD56 | 6 (6) |
Others | 7 (7) |
NA | 5 (5)* |
Clonality of the infected cells | |
Monoclonal | 54 (54) |
Oligoclonal | 7 (7) |
No clonality | 4 (4) |
NA | 35 (35) |
Symptoms and signs at diagnosis | |
Fever | 85 (85) |
Hepatosplenomegaly | 64 (70) |
Lymphadenopathy | 48 (53) |
Cardiac dysfunction | 8 (9) |
Aneurysm | 8 (9) |
Gastrointestinal symptom | 7 (8) |
Neurological symptoms | 7 (8) |
Vasculitis | 6 (7) |
Uveitis | 4 (4) |
HLH | 24 (26) |
HMB | 25 (25) |
HV-like eruption | 9 (9) |
Laboratory findings | |
Neutropenia (<1000/µL) | 14 (16) |
Anemia (<9 g/dL) | 12 (14) |
Thrombocytopenia (<10 × 104/µL) | 27 (30) |
High ALT (>128 U/L) | 27 (31) |
High sIL-2R (>2400 U/mL) | 17 (27) |
NA, not available.
One and 4 patients were described to be CD3 and NK infected, respectively; detailed phenotypes were not available.