T-cell and B-cell identification combined with histologic classification in lymphoma

ABSTRACT

The study was carried out on 20 patients with lymphomas 10 with Hodgkin's disease and 10 with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. Comparison between histologic classification of lymphoma after surgical biopsies and cytologic examination of smears after lymph node puncture was done. This was also accompanied by identification of T and B cells in the lymph node aspirate and in the peripheral blood samples of these patients. The study showed that most patients with Hodgkin's lymphoma were of B cell origin. Matching the cytologic results of lymph node smear with lymph node biopsy reports was made in six out of eight cases [75%] with Hodgkin's disease and in five out of seven cases [71%] with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma