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A striking feature was that larger bcl-2 negative cells were observed in nine of these tumours. They were either scattered singly among the small neoplastic cells or formed small clusters, suggesting that they could represent early areas of transformation to high grade neoplasia. Germinal centres in the vicinity of the tumours lacked bcl-2 protein and hence contrasted clearly with the neoplastic cells. In some cases this permitted germinal centres, which were not obvious on conventional histological staining, to be recognised. In 20 of the 22 cases of high grade B cell lymphoma the large neoplastic cells were bcl-2 negative; the remaining two cases, however, contained a proportion of large neoplastic bcl-2 positive cells. In four of the 22 cases of high grade tumours a low grade component was found which expressed bcl-2 in all cases. CONCLUSION--Bcl-2 protein is expressed in low grade, but not in most high grade, MALT lymphomas. 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