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Confirmation of lymphomatous pulmonary involvement by immunophenotypic and gene rearrangement analysis of bronchoalveolar lavage fluid.
Mayo Clinic proceedings - 1 May 1990
Pisani R J, Witzig T E, Li C Y, Morris M A, Thibodeau S N
Abstract excerpt
Pathologic diagnosis of pulmonary involvement with lymphoma has traditionally necessitated open-lung biopsy in most cases. Specimens large enough to allow recognition of characteristic cytologic and architectural changes are usually not obtained bronchoscopically. Even when adequate biopsy specimens are available, however, unequivocal differentiation of lymphoma from benign inflammatory proliferative lesions (for...
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