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[Lymph node biopsy].

N Brousse
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Lymph node biopsy is often easy to perform but final histologic diagnosis and accuracy depends on its technical quality: adequate biopsy and proper fixation and processing. This technical note defines advice on the selection of the lymph node biopsy site, shows the interest of a previous lymph node needle aspiration and gives the principles of histopathological techniques: cytology on imprints from the excised fresh unfixed node, fixation, staining methods ad immunohistochemistry. A place is given to the indications of frozen section diagnosis, frozen tissue, electron microscopy, microbiological, cytogenetic and molecular studies for gene rearrangement.

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N Brousse. 1996. [Lymph node biopsy].. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8766185/

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