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This chapter outlines practical approaches for rapid on-site assessment during fine needle aspiration or biopsy of lung lesions as well as mediastinal lymph nodes. It is important to classify the lesions into inflammatory/infectious, hematopoietic lesions, and non-hematopoietic tumor for appropriate specimen triage. Additional sampling should be recommended for potential ancillary studies/molecular testing if on-site evaluation suggests a non-small cell carcinoma. The chapter provides cytomorphologic features and diagnostic pitfalls of commonly encountered lung lesions.

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Cai, G. (2019). Lung. In: Cai, G., Adeniran, A. (eds) Rapid On-site Evaluation (ROSE). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-21799-0_10

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