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American Journal of Pathology, Vol 92, 173-181, Copyright © 1978 by American Society for Investigative Pathology

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The thymus in patients with allogeneic bone marrow transplants

WE Beschorner, GM Hutchins, GJ Elfenbein and GW Santos

The thymus glands from 11 patients with aplastic anemia or acute leukemia who received allogeneic bone marrow transplants were studied at autopsy. All showed marked cortical involution. In the short-term survivors the medulla and perivascular spaces were lymphocyte-depleted and the epithelial cells formed pseudorosettes. In those surviving over 2 months, increasing numbers of small lymphocytes were present, presumably reconstituted with donor lymphocytes. Phagocytosis of cellular debris was frequent, especially in patients with graft-versus- host reaction (GVHR) or treated with anithymocyte globulin (ATG). Plasma cells were numerous in perilobular tissue and were occasionally found within the medulla. The findings are compatible with the concept that the thymus plays an important role in the immune deficiency experienced after allogeneic bone marrow transplantation and in the subsequent lymphoid reconstitution.


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