title: Fine-Needle Aspiration Cytology and Immunocytochemistry of Abdominal Non-Hodgkin's Lymphomas.
abstract: The cytomorphology and immunologic characteristics of cells obtained by fine-needle aspiration biopsy of 34 consecutive patients with abdominal lymphomas were analyzed. Nineteen patients had no previous diagnosis, while 15 had previously known or suspected lymphomas. On cytology 21 high-grade and 13 low-intermediate-grade lymphomas were diagnosed. Immunologic characterization of aspirated cells identified one T-cell and 33 B-cell neoplasms. A monoclonal light chain expression was detected in 27 of the B-cell lymphomas. The results were in good agreement with those from histologic (n = 19) and immunohistochemical (n = 5) evaluations. The value and accuracy of fine-needle aspiration cytology in conjunction with immunocytochemistry are detailed.
authors.affiliation: a Department of Oncology, Radiumhemmet, Karolinska Hospital, 104-01, Stockholm, Sweden.|b Department of Medicine, Karolinska Institute at Huddinge Hospital, 141-86 Huddinge, Sweden.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Liliemark
authors.affiliation: c Division of Clinical Cytology, Department of Pathology, Karolinska Hospital, 104-01 Stockholm, Sweden.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Tani
authors.affiliation: d Division of Immunopathology, Department of Pathology, Karolinska Hospital, 104-01, Stockholm, Sweden.
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Christensson
authors.affiliation: a Department of Oncology, Radiumhemmet, Karolinska Hospital, 104-01, Stockholm, Sweden.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Svedmyr
authors.affiliation: a Department of Oncology, Radiumhemmet, Karolinska Hospital, 104-01, Stockholm, Sweden.|c Division of Clinical Cytology, Department of Pathology, Karolinska Hospital, 104-01 Stockholm, Sweden.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Skoog
keywords: Cytology; abdominal lymphoma; immunocytochemistry; non-Hodgkin's lymphoma