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The questions that the pathologist tries to sequentially answer when evaluating fine needle aspiration biopsies of lymph nodes are Is the aspirate adequate? Is the nodule clinically considered to be a lymph node really a lymph node? Is the lymphadenopathy caused by a benign or malignant process? If it is a benign process, is it infectious? Can the infectious agent be identified? If it is malignant, is it a metastasis or lymphoma? If it is a metastasis what is the type (carcinoma, melanoma, sarcoma)? Where did it most likely originate? If it is lymphoma, is it non-Hodgkin or Hodgkin lymphoma? If it is non-Hodgkin lymphoma, is it of B or T cell type? What is the subtype? Is it possible to grade it? If it is Hodgkin lymphoma, is it possible to determine the subtype?
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Pambuccian, S.E., Bardales, R.H. (2011). Overall Assessment of the Aspirate: Diagnostic Clues. In: Lymph Node Cytopathology. Essentials in Cytopathology, vol 10. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-6964-4_5
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