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Table 1 Correlation between cytological and final diagnoses

From: Inconclusive flow cytometric surface light chain results; can cytoplasmic light chains, Bcl-2 expression and PCR clonality analysis improve accuracy of cytological diagnoses in B-cell lymphomas?

 

Cytological diagnoses

Final diagnoses

DLBCL

FL

MZL

BCL-NOS

Suspicious for lymphoma

RLP

DLBCL (11)

7

-

-

-

4

-

FL (7)

-

5

-

2

-

-

MZL (10)

-

-

4a

1

4

1

BCL-NOS (2)

1

-

-

-

1

-

RLP (68)

-

-

-

1

6

61

TOTAL (98)

8

5

4

4

15

62

  1. BCL B-cell lymphoma, DLBCL diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, FL follicular lymphoma, MZL marginal zone lymphoma, NOS not otherwise specified, RLP reactive lymphocytic proliferations
  2. aOne case composite lymphoma: marginal zone and T-cell lymphoma