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Aspiration Cytopathology of Lymph Nodes and Lymphoproliferative Neoplasms

References for All Cases

Paul E. Wakely, Jr.


GENERAL and REACTIVE HYPERPLASIA
  1. Frable WJ: Needle aspiration biopsy: past, present, future. Hum Pathol 20:504-517, 1989
  2. Wakely PE Jr. Aspiration & Touch Preparation Cytopathology of Lymph Nodes. In: Atkinson B, and Silverman JF, eds. Atlas of Difficult Diagnoses in Cytopathology. Chapter 13, p.401-28, Philadelphia, WB Saunders Co., 1998.
  3. Kornstein MJ, Wakely PE Jr: Lymph Nodes. In: Cibas ES and Ducatman BS, eds. Cytology: Diagnostic Principles and Clinical Correlates. Philadelphia, WB Saunders Co., 1996, p.271-295.
  4. Wakely PE Jr: Lymph Nodes. In: Cibas ES and Ducatman BS, eds. Cytology: Diagnostic Principles and Clinical Correlates, 2nd ed. Philadelphia, WB Saunders Co., (in press)
  5. Stanley MW, Lowhagen T. Fine Needle Aspiration of Palpable Masses. Butterworth Heinemann, Boston, 1993.
  6. Suen KC. Seeing, not just looking. Diagn Cytopathol 1991; 7:335-36.
  7. Flanders E, Kornstein MJ, Wakely PEJr, Kardos TF, Frable WJ. Lymphoglandular bodies in fine needle aspiration cytology. Am J Clin Pathol 1993; 99:566-569.
  8. Glant MD, King DE. Aspiration biopsy of lymph nodes: reactive and primary neoplasia. In: Atkinson B, ed. Atlas of Diagnostic Cytopathology. Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders Co., 1992:485-531.
  9. O'Dowd GJ, Frable WJ, Behm FG. Fine needle aspiration cytology of benign lymph node hyperplasia. Diagnostic significance of lymphohistiocytic aggregates. Acta Cytol 1985; 29:554-558.
  10. Glant MD. Cytopathology of lymph nodes in nonspecific reactive hyperplasia: prognostication and differential diagnosis. Am J Clin Pathol 1997;108:S31-55.
  11. Tarantino DR, McHenry CR, Strickland T, et al. The role of fine-needle aspiration biopsy and flow cytometry in the evaluation of persistent neck adenopathy. Am J Surg 1998;176:413-17.
  12. Stani J. Cytologic diagnoses of reactive lymphadenopathy in fine needle aspiration biopsy specimens. Acta Cytol 1987; 31:8-13.
  13. Chow LTC, Yuen RWS, Tsui WMS et al. Cytologic features of Kimura's disease in fine-needle aspirates: a study of eight cases. Am J Clin Pathol 1994;102:316-21.
SUPPURATIVE/INFECTIOUS LYMPHADENITIS
  1. Stastny JF, Wakely PE Jr, Frable WJ. Cytologic features of necrotizing granulomatous inflammation consistent with cat scratch disease. Diagn Cytopathol 1996;15:108-115.
  2. Silverman JF. Fine needle aspiration cytology of cat-scratch disease. Acta Cytol 1985;29:542-47.
  3. Avidor R, Varon M, Marmor S, et al. DNA amplification for the diagnosis of cat-scratch disease in small-quantity clinical specimens. Am J Clin Pathol 2001;115:900-09.
  4. Maygarden SJ, Flanders E. Mycobacteria can be seen as "negative images" in cytology smears from patients with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. Mod Pathol 1989; 2:239-243.
  5. Stanley MW, Horwitz CA, Burton LG, Weisser JA. Negative images of bacilli and mycobacterial infection: A study of fine-needle aspiration smears from lymph nodes in patients with AIDS. Diagn Cytopathol 1990; 6:118-121.
  6. Das DK et al. Superficial and deep-seated tuberculous lesions: fine-needle aspiration cytology diagnosis of 574 cases. Diagn Cytopathol 1992; 8:211-15.
  7. Corkill M, Stephens J, Bitter M. Fine needle aspiration cytology of mycobacterial spindle cell pseudotumor: a case report. Acta Cytol 1995;39:125-28.
  8. Jayaram G, Chew MT. Fine needle aspiration cytology of lymph nodes in HIV-infected patients. Acta Cytol 2000;44:960-66.
  9. Ellison E, Lapuerta P, Martin SE. FNA in HIV+ patients: results from a series of 655 patients. Cytopathology 1998;9:222-29.
  10. Reid AJ, Miller RF, Kocjan GI. Diagnostic utility of fine needle aspiration(FNA) cytology in HIV-infected patients with lymphadenopathy. Cytopathology 1998;9:230-39.
  11. Sudilovsky D, Cha I. Fine needle aspiration cytology of dermatopathic lymphadenitis. Acta Cytol 1998;42:1341-46.
  12. Iyer VK, Kapila K, Verma K. Fine needle aspiration cytology of dermatopathic lymphadenitis. Acta Cytol 1998;42:1347-51.
  13. Trautman BC, Stanley MW, Goding GS, Rosai J. Sinus histiocytosis with massive lymphadenopathy(Rosai-Dorfman disease): diagnosis by fine needle aspiration. Diagn Cytopathol 1991; 7:513-516.
  14. Schmitt FC. Sinus histiocytosis with massive lymphadenopathy(Rosai-Dorfman disease): cytomorphologic analysis on fine-needle aspirates. Diagn Cytopathol 1992;8:596-99.
  15. Deshpande AH, Nayak S, Munshi MM. Cytology of sinus histiocytosis with massive lymphadenopathy(Rosai-Dorfman disease). Diagn Cytopathol 2000;22:181-85.
  16. Alegret RA, Tello AM, Ramirez T, et al. Sinus histiocytosis with massive lymphadenopathy(Rosai-Dorfman Disease): diagnosis with fine-needle aspiration in a case with nodal and nasal involvement. Diagn Cytopathol 1995;13:333-35.
  17. Frable MA, Frable WJ. Fine needle aspiration biopsy in the diagnosis of sarcoid of the head and neck Acta Cytol; 1984;28:175-77.
  18. Tsang WYW, Chan JKC. Fine-needle aspiration cytologic diagnosis of Kikuchi's lymphadenitis. A report of 27 cases. Am J Clin Pathol 1994;102:454-458.
  19. Dorfman RF, Berry GJ. Kikuchi's histiocytic necrotizing lymphadenitis; an analysis of 108 cases with emphasis on differential diagnosis. Semin Diagn Pathol 1988;5:329-45.
  20. Stanley MW, Steeper TA, Horwitz CA, Burton LG, Strickler JG, Borken S. Fine needle aspiration of lymph nodes in patients with acute infectious mononucleosis. Diagn Cytopathol 1990; 6:323-329.
  21. Kardos TF, Kornstein MJ, Frable WJ: Cytology and immunocytology of infectious mononucleosis in fine needle aspirates of lymph nodes. Acta Cytol 32:722-726, 1988.
MALIGNANT LYMPHOMA – GENERAL
  1. Jaffe ES, Harris NL, Stein H, Vardiman JW(Eds.). World Health Organization Classification of Tumours. Pathology and Genetics of Tumours of Haematopoietic and Lymphoid Tissues. IARC Press: Lyon 2001.
  2. Harris N, Jaffe ES, Stein H, et al. A revised European-American classification of lymphoid neoplasms: a proposal from the International Lymphoma Study Group. Blood 1994;84:1361-92.
  3. Frable WJ, Kardos TF. Fine needle aspiration biopsy. Applications in the diagnosis of lymphoproliferative diseases. Am J Surg Pathol 1988; 12(Suppl 1):62-72.
  4. Meda BA, Buss DH, Woodruff RD, et al. Diagnosis and subclassification of primary and recurrent lymphomas. The usefulness and limitations of combined fine needle aspiration cytomorphology and flow cytometry. Am J Clin Pathol 2000;113:688-99.
  5. Sandhaus LM. Fine-needle aspiration cytology in the diagnosis of lymphoma. The next step. Am J Clin Pathol 2000;113:623-7(editorial).
  6. Dong HY, Harris NL, Preffer FI, Pitman MB. Fine-needle aspiration biopsy in the diagnosis and classification of primary and recurrent lymphoma: a retrospective analysis of the utility of cytomorphology and flow cytometry. Mod Pathol 2001;14:472-81.
  7. Sneige N, Dekmezian RH, Katz R, et al. Morphologic and immunocytochemical evaluation of 220 fine needle aspirates of malignant lymphoma and lymphoid hyperplasia. Acta Cytol 1990; 34:311-322.
  8. Young NA, Al-Saleem T. Diagnosis of lymphoma by fine-needle aspiration cytology using the revised European-American classification of lymphoid neoplasms. Cancer(Cancer Cytopathol) 1999;87:325-45.
  9. Levitt S, Chang I, Dupuis M, et al. Fine needle aspiration diagnosis of malignant lymphoma with confirmation by immunoperoxidase staining. Acta Cytol 1985;29:895-902.
  10. Oertel J, Oertel B, Kastner M, et al. The value of immunocytochemical staining of lymph node aspirates in diagnostic cytology. Br J Haematol 1988;70:307-16.
  11. Tani EM, Christensson B, Porwit A, et al. Immunocytochemical analysis and cytomorphological diagnosis on fine needle aspirates of lymphoproliferative diseases. Acta Cytol 1988;32:209-15.
  12. Tani EM, Skoog L. Aspiration cytology and immunocytochemistry of non-Hodgkin's lymphomas. In: Linsk, Franzen, ed. Clinical aspiration cytology. 2nd. ed., Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott, 1989;358-63.
  13. Wakely PE Jr. Aspiration cytopathology of malignant lymphoma. Coming of age. Cancer(Cancer Cytopathol) 1999; 87:322-24.
  14. Wakely PE Jr. Fine needle aspiration cytopathology in diagnosis and classification of malignant lymphoma: accurate and reliable? Diagn Cytopathol 2000; 22:120-25.
  15. Wakely PE Jr. Fine Needle Aspiration Cytopathology of Malignant Lymphoma. In: Stanley, MW, ed. Clinics in Laboratory Medicine, Fine Needle Aspiration,Vol. 18, no.3, p.541-59, Philadelphia, WB Saunders Co., 1998.
  16. Fang J, Hussong JW, Perkins SL, et al. Diagnosis and classification of lymphoma based on cytospin preparations: a comparison of hematopathologists and cytopathologists. Diagn Cytopathol 2000;22:336-341.
  17. Skoog L, Tani E. The role of fine needle aspiration cytology in the diagnosis of non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Diagn Oncol 1991;1:12-18.
  18. Nicol TL, Silberman M, Rosenthal DL, et al. The accuracy of combined cytopathology and flow cytometric analysis of fine-needle aspirates of lymph nodes. Am J Clin Pathol 2000;114:18-28.
  19. de Kerviler E, Guermazi A, Zagdanski A, et al. Image guided core-needle biopsy in patients with suspected or recurrent lymphomas. Cancer 2000;89:647-52.
HODGKIN LYMPHOMA
  1. Tani E, Ersoz C, Svedmyr E, et al. Fine needle aspiration cytology and immunocytochemistry of Hodgkin's disease – suppurative type. Diagn Cytopathol 1998;18:437-40.
  2. Kardos TF, Vinson JH, Behm FG, Frable WJ, O'Dowd GJ. Hodgkin's disease: diagnosis by fine needle aspiration biopsy. Analysis of cytologic criteria from a selected series. Am J Clin Pathol 1986; 86:286-291.
  3. Chhieng DC, Cangiarella JF, Symmans WF, Cohen J-M. Fine-needle aspiration cytology of Hodgkin disease. A Study of 89 cases with emphasis on the false-negative cases. Cancer(Cancer Cytopathol) 2001;93:52-59.
  4. Fulciniti F, Vetrani A, Zeppa P, et al. Hodgkin's disease: diagnostic accuracy of fine needle aspiration; a report based on 62 consecutive cases. Cytopathology 1994;5:226-33.
  5. Moriarty AT, Banks ER, Block T. Cytologic criteria for subclassification of Hodgkin's disease using fine-needle aspiration. Diagn Cytopathol 1989;5:122-25.
  6. Das D, Gupta S, Datta B, et al. Fine needle aspiration cytodiagnosis of Hodgkin's disease and its subtypes. 1. Scope and limitations. Acta Cytol 1989;34:329-36.
MALIGNANT LYMPHOMA, B-CELL
  1. Gagneten D, Hijazi YM, Jaffe ES, et al. Mantle cell lymphoma: a cytopathological and immunocytochemical study. Diagn Cytopathol 1996;14:32-37.
  2. Wojcik EM, Katz RL, Fanning TV, et al. Diagnosis of mantle cell lymphoma on tissue acquired by fine needle aspiration in conjunction with immunocytochemistry and cytokinetic studies: possibilities and limitations. Acta Cytol 1995;39:909-15.
  3. Jeffers MD, Milton J, Herriot R, et al. Fine needle aspiration cytology in the investigation of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. J Clin Pathol 1998;51:189-96.
  4. Tani E, Johannson B, Skoog L. T-cell rich B-cell lymphoma: fine needle aspiration cytology and immunocytochemistry. Diagn Cytopathol 1998;18:1-4.
  5. Rassidakis GZ, Tani E, Svedmyr E, et al. Diagnosis and subclassification of follicle center and mantle cell lymphomas on fine-needle aspirates. Cancer(Cancer Cytopathol) 1999;87:216-23.
  6. Young NA, Al-Saleem TI, al-Saleem Z, et al. The value of transformed lymphocyte count in subclassification of non Hodgkin's lymphoma by fine needle aspiration. Am J Clin Pathol 1997;108:143-51.
  7. Hughes JH, Katz RL, Fonseca GA, Cabanillas FF. Fine-needle aspiration cytology of mediastinal non-Hodgkin's nonlymphoblastic lymphoma. Cancer(Cancer Cytopathol) 1998;84:26-35.
  8. Chhieng DC, Cohen J-M, Cangiarella JF. Cytology and immunophenotyping of low-and intermediate-grade B-cell non-Hodgkin's lymphomas with a predominant small-cell component: a study of 56 cases. Diagn Cytopathol 2001;24:90-97.
MALIGNANT LYMPHOMA, T-CELL
  1. Cho EY, Gong G, Khang SK, et al. Fine needle aspiration cytology of CD56-positive natural killer/T-cell lymphoma of soft tissue. Cancer(Cancer Cytopathology) 2002;96:344-50.
  2. Al Shanqeety O, Mourad WA. Diagnosis of peripheral T-cell lymphoma by fine-needle aspiration biopsy: a cytomorphologic and immunophenotypic approach. Diagn Cytopathol 2000;23:375-79.
  3. Oshima K, Tani E, Skoog L, Kikuchi M. Fine needle aspiration cytology of high grade T-cell lymphomas in human T-lymphotropic virus type 1 carriers. Cytopathology 1992;3:365-72.
  4. Basu Kumar S, Shome DK, et al. Cutaneous T-cell lymphoma diagnosed by fine-needle aspiration. Diagn Cytopathol 1994;11:174-77.
  5. Dey P, Radhika S, Das A. Fine-needle aspiration biopsy of angio-immunoblastic lymphadenopathy. Diagn Cytopathol 1996;15:412-14.
  6. Galindo LM, Garcia FU, Hanau CA et al. Fine-needle aspiration biopsy in the evaluation of lymphadenopathy associated with cutaneous T-cell lymphoma(mycosis fungoides/ Sezary syndrome). Am J Clin Pathol 2000;113:865-71.
  7. Katz RL, Gritsman A, Cabanillas R, et.al. Fine-needle aspiration cytology of peripheral T-cell lymphoma: a cytologic, immunologic, and cytometric study. Am J Clin Pathol 1989; 91:120-131.
  8. Oertel J, Oertel B, Lobeck H, et.al. Cytologic and immunocytologic studies of peripheral T-cell lymphomas. Acta Cytol 1991; 35:285-293.
  9. Yao JL, Cangiarella JF, Cohen J-M, Chhieng DC. Fine-needle aspiration biopsy of peripheral T-cell lymphomas. A cytologic and immunophenotypic study of 33 cases. Cancer(Cancer Cytopathol) 2001;93:151-59.
  10. Ng W, IP P, Choy C et al. Cytologic findings of angioimmunoblastic T-Cell lymphoma. Analysis of 16 fine-needle aspirates over a 9-year period. Cancer(Cancer Cytopathol) 2002;96:166-73.
ANAPLASTIC LARGE CELL LYMPHOMA
  1. McCluggage WG, Anderson N, Herron B, et al. Fine needle aspiration cytology, histology and immunohistochemistry of anaplastic large cell Ki-1 positive lymphoma. A report of three cases. Acta Cytol 1996;40:779-85.
  2. Zakowski MF, Feiner H, Finfer M, et al. Cytology of extranodal Ki-1 anaplastic large cell lymphoma. Diagn Cytopathol 1996;14:155-61.
  3. Noorduyn La, van Heerde P, Meyer CJ. Cytology of Ki-1(CD30) positive large cell lymphoma. Cytopathology 1990;1:297-304.
  4. Bizjak-Schwarzbartl M. Large cell anaplastic Ki-1+ non-Hodgkin's lymphoma vs. Hodgkin's disease in fine needle aspiration biopsy samples. Acta Cytol 1997;41:351-356.
  5. Jayaram G, Abdul Rahman N. Cytology of Ki-1 positive anaplastic large cell lymphoma. A report of two cases. Acta Cytol 1997;41:1253-60.
  6. Chan JK. Anaplastic large cell lymphoma: redefining its morphologic spectrum and importance of recognition of the ALK-positive subset. Adv Anat Pathol 1998;5:281-313.
  7. Kinney MC, Kadin ME. The pathologic and clinical spectrum of anaplastic large cell lymphoma and correlation with ALK gene dysregulation. Am J Clin Pathol 1999;111(Suppl.1):S56-67.
  8. Sgrignoli A, Abati A. Cytologic diagnosis of anaplastic large cell lymphoma. Acta Cytol 1997; 41:1048-52.
PEDIATRIC LYMPHOMAS
  1. Wakely PE Jr, Kornstein MJ. Aspiration cytopathology of lymphoblastic lymphoma and leukemia: the MCV experience. Pediatr Pathol and LabMed1996; 16:243-52.
  2. Das DK, Gupta SK, Pathak IC et.al: Burkitt-type lymphoma. Diagnosis by fine needle aspiration cytology. Acta Cytol 31:1-7, 1987.
  3. Buchino JJ, Jones VF: Fine needle aspiration in the evaluation of children with lymphadenopathy. Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 148:1327-1330, 1994.
  4. Eisenhut CC, King DE, Nelson WA et.al. Fine-needle biopsy of pediatric lesions: a three-year study in an outpatient biopsy clinic. Diagn Cytopathol 14:43-50, 1996.
  5. Almeida M, Stastny JF, Wakely Jr. PE, Frable WJ: Fine-needle aspiration biopsy of childhood rhabdomyosarcoma: Reevaluation of the cytologic criteria for diagnosis. Diagn Cytopathol 11:231-236.1994.
  6. Stastny JF, Almeida MM, Wakely PE Jr, Kornstein MJ, Frable WJ. Fine needle aspiration biopsy and imprint cytology of small non-cleaved cell (Burkitt's) lymphoma. Diagn Cytopathol1995; 12:201-207.
  7. Tani E, Maeda S, Frostad B, et al. Aspiration cytology with phenotyping and clinical presentation of childhood lymphomas. Diagn Oncol 1993;3:294-301.
  8. Geisinger KR, Silverman JF, Wakely Jr. PE. Pediatric Cytopathology. ASCP Press, Chicago, 1994, pp.201-228.
  9. Jacobs JC, Katz RL, Shabb N et.al. Fine needle aspiration of lymphoblastic lymphoma. A multiparameter diagnostic approach. Acta Cytol 36:887-894, 1992.
  10. Kardos TF, Sprague RI, Wakely Jr PE, Frable WJ. Fine needle aspiration biopsy of lymphoblastic lymphoma and leukemia. A clinical, cytologic, and immunologic study. Cancer 60:2448-2453. 1987.
EXTRANODAL MALIGNANT LYMPHOMA
  1. Matsushima AY, Hamele-Bena D, Osborne BM. Fine-needle aspiration biopsy findings in marginal zone B cell lymphoma. Diagn Cytopathol 1999;20:190-98.
  2. Tani E, Liliemark J, Biberfield P, et al. Fine-needle aspiration cytology with immunocytochemistry of extra-nodal manifestations of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. Leuk Lymphoma 1990;1;129-39.
  3. Stewart CJR, Jackson R, Farquharson M, et al. Fine needle aspiration cytology of extranodal lymphoma. Diagn Cytopathol 1998;19:260-66.
  4. Wakely PE Jr, Frable WJ, Kneisl JS. Soft tissue aspiration cytopathology of malignant lymphoma and leukemia. Cancer(Cancer Cytopathol) 2001; 93:35-39.
SPINDLE CELL and NON-LYMPHOID LESIONS
  1. Perry MD, Gore M, Seigler HF et al. Fine needle aspiration biopsy of metastatic melanoma. A morphologic analysis of 174 cases. Acta Cytol 1986;30:385-96.
  2. Nasiell K, Tani E, Skoog L. Fine needle aspiration cytology and immunocytochemistry of metastatic melanoma. Cytopathology 1991;2:137-47.
  3. Ryan MR, Stastny JF, Wakely PE Jr. The cytopathology of synovial sarcoma: a study of six cases, emphasizing architecture and histopathologic correlation. Cancer(Cancer Cytopathol)1998; 84:42-49.
  4. Wright CA, Nayler SJ, Leiman G. Cytopathology of follicular dendritic cell tumours. Diagn Cytopathol 1997;17:138-42.
  5. Guiter GE, Sanchez-Marull R, Sapia S, et al. Fine-needle aspiration of a follicular dendritic-cell tumor: report of a case and review of the literature. Diagn Cytopathol 2000;22:238-42.
  6. Dusenbery D, Jones DB, Sapp KW, et al. Cytologic findings in the sarcomatoid variant of large cell anaplastic(Ki-1) lymphoma. A case report. Acta Cytol 1993;37:508-14.
  7. Dusenbery D, Watson CG. Fine-needle aspiration biopsy findings in a case of follicular dendritic cell tumor. Am J Clin Pathol 1996;106:689-92.
  8. Gamborino E, Carrilho C, Ferro J et al. Fine-needle aspiration diagnosis of Kaposi's sarcoma in a developing country. Diagn Cytopathol 2000;23:322-25.
  9. Chan JK. Inflammatory pseudotumor: a family of lesions of diverse nature and etiologies. Adv Anat Pathol 1996;3:156-71.
  10. Kakkar S, Kapila K, Verma K. Langerhans cell histiocytosis in lymph nodes. cytomorphologic diagnosis and pitfalls. Acta Cytol 2001;45:327-32.
ANCILLARY STUDIES – LYMPH NODE
  1. Zardawi IM, Jain S, Bennett G. Flow-cytometric algorithm on fine-needle aspirates for the clinical workup of patients with lymphadenopathy. Diagn Cytopathol 1998;19:274-78.
  2. Simsir A, Fetsch P, Stetler-Stevenson M, Abati A. Immunophenotypic analysis of non-Hodgkin lymphomas in cytologic specimens: a correlative study of immunocytochemical and flow cytometric techniques. Diagn Cytopathol 1999;20:278-84.
  3. Zander DS, Iturraspe JA, Everett ET, et al. Flow cytometry. In vitro assessment of its potential application for diagnosis and classification of lymphoid processes in cytologic preparations from fine-needle aspirates. Am J Clin Pathol 1994;101:577-86.
  4. Young NA, Al-Saleem TI, Ehya H, et al. Utilization of fine-needle aspiration cytology and flow cytometry in the diagnosis and subclassification of primary and recurrent lymphoma. Cancer(Cancer Cytopathol) 1998;84:252-61.
  5. Dunphy CH, Ramos R. Combining fine-needle aspiration and flow cytometric immunophenotyping in evaluation of nodal and extranodal sites for possible lymphoma: a retrospective review. Diagn Cytopathol 1997;16:200-06.
  6. Moriarty AT, Wiersma L, Snyder W, et al. Immunophenotyping of cytologic specimens by flow cytometry. Diagn Cytopathol 1993; 9:252-58.
  7. Chernoff WG, Lampe HB, Cramer H, et al. The potential clinical impact of the fine needle aspiration/flow cytometric diagnosis of malignant lymphoma. J Otolaryngol 1992;21:1-15.
  8. Katz RL, Caraway NP, Gu J, et al. Detection of chromosome 11q13 breakpoints by interphase fluorescence in situ hybridization. A useful ancillary method for the diagnosis of mantle cell lymphoma. Am J Clin Pathol 2000;114;248-57.
  9. Cornfield DB, Mitchell DM, Almasri NM, et al. Follicular lymphoma can be distinguished from benign follicular hyperplasia by flow cytometry using simultaneous staining of cytoplasmic bcl-2 and cell surface CD20. Am J Clin Pathol 2000;114:258-63.
  10. Lubinski J, Chosia M, Huebner K. Molecular genetic analysis in the diagnosis of lymphoma in fine needle aspiration biopsies. Part 2: lymphomas vs non-lymphoid malignant tumors. Analyt Quant Cytol Histol 1988;10:399-430.
  11. Robbins DB, Katz RL, Swan F, et al. Immunotyping of lymphoma by fine-needle aspiration: a comparative study of cytospin preparations and flow cytometry. Am J Clin Pathol 1994;101:569-76.
  12. Katz RL, Hirsch-Gisberg C, Childs C, et al. The role of gene rearrangements for antigen receptors in the diagnosis of lymphomas obtained by fine-needle aspiration. A study of 63 cases with concomitant immunophenotyping. Am J Clin Pathol 1991;96:479-90.