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F Rilke

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Fine needle aspiration biopsy cytology of primary and metastatic pulmonary tumors.

A total of 130 patients with clinically suspected primary or secondary malignant neoplasms of the lung underwent fine needle aspiration biopsy under fluoroscopic control. The cases included 80 primary malignant tumors of the lung, 35 metastatic deposits, 14 nonneoplastic lesions and 1 benign tumor. The cytologic diagnoses were confirmed histologically in 56 cases and clinically in 74. Among the latter, the cytologic findings were comparable to the histology of the primary tumor in 19 cases with metastatic pulmonary lesions; in five cases, the extrapulmonary primary was identified on the basis of the cytologic study of the metastatic pulmonary lesion. The diagnostic sensitivity was 0.91 because of a false-negative result in a case of bronchial carcinoid, and the diagnostic specificity was 0.95. The predictive value was 0.99 for positive results because of a false-positive diagnosis given on a chondroid hamartoma and 0.70 for negative results. The sensitivity was 0.92 for primary malignancies and 0.89 for metastases. The cytologic typing accuracy of the 32 cases with histologically confirmed primary carcinoma of the lung was 0.65. Large-cell carcinoma and adenocarcinoma were the types that were cytologically unidentifiable most frequently. No major complications caused by the procedure were recorded in the present series.

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Diagnostic assessment of enlarged superficial lymph nodes by fine needle aspiration.

Two hundred eighty-five consecutive outpatients with enlarged superficial lymph node either clinically suspicious (152) or with a previous diagnosis of a malignant tumor (133) underwent fine needle aspiration (FNA) followed by excisional biopsy. Cytologic and/or cytologic-immunophenotypic diagnoses made on direct smears were compared with subsequent histologic findings. The comparison demonstrated (1) a high rate of conclusive cytologic diagnoses in the assessment of metastatic malignancies, with an overall accuracy rate of 99.1% and a typing accuracy rate of 96.5%; (2) a high rate of conclusive diagnoses in the assessment of high grade non-Hodgkin's lymphomas and Hodgkin's disease, with the exception of the lymphocytic predominance variant of the latter; and (3) significant limitations in the assessment of low grade non-Hodgkin's lymphomas because of the high rate of false-negative diagnoses in cases with a substantial nonmalignant cell component. This was particularly evident in follicular centroblastic-centrocytic lymphomas. Immunocytochemistry appeared to be of limited value in the distinction between centroblastic-centrocytic follicular lymphomas and reactive follicular hyperplasia. The results confirmed the diagnostic value of fine needle aspiration as the first step in the workup of patients with nodal enlargement suspicious for malignancy. In the area of low grade non-Hodgkin's lymphomas, morphologic and immunocytochemical methods need to be supplemented by molecular techniques in order to achieve conclusive diagnoses.

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