FINE NEEDLE ASPIRATION CYTOLOGY OF BENIGN LYMPH-NODE HYPERPLASIAS - DIAGNOSTIC-SIGNIFICANCE OF LYMPHOHISTIOCYTIC AGGREGATES

  • 1 January 1985
    • journal article
    • research article
    • Vol. 29  (4) , 554-558
Abstract
The fine needle aspiration cytomorphology and the number of lymphohistiocytic aggregates were correlated with 5 categories of benign lymph node histologies. Of 187 patients who had benign lymph node histologies. Of 187 patients who had benign lymph node aspiration diagnoses made from 1975-1982, 26 had a subsequent lymph node biopsy. Excluded from the study were 4 cases with the biopsy site different from the aspiration site, 3 cases with evidence of metastatic carcinoma and 1 case of fistula at the site of biopsy. Of the remaining 18 cases, 13 (72%) had lymphohistiocytic aggregates on the aspiration slides. The mean number of lymphohistiocytic aggregates on the aspiration slides was greater in cases with histologic evidence of follicular hyperplasia (6.1) than in those with some other predominating benign histology (1.6).