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Modern approach to lymphoma diagnosis by fine‐needle aspiration
Author(s) -
Katz Ruth L.
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
cancer cytopathology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.052
H-Index - 304
eISSN - 1097-0142
pISSN - 0008-543X
DOI - 10.1002/cncr.21499
Subject(s) - medicine , fine needle aspiration , biopsy , lymphoma , aspiration biopsy , radiology , medical physics , pathology
For fine‐needle aspiration (FNA) biopsy to become established as a first‐line procedure, it has to be perceived by the oncology community as yielding accurate and diagnostically useful information on which to base therapy. The articles submitted for this State of the Art Symposium regarding the diagnosis of lymphoma by FNA describe a minimalist but powerful approach, requiring the synthesis of morphology, phenotyping, and cytogenetic information on a small quantity of tissue.