L Cavanna, G Civardi, F Fornari, M Di Stasi, G Sbolli, E Buscarini, D Vallisa, S Rossi, P Tansini, L Buscarini
Ultrasonically (US) guided percutaneous tissue core biopsy of the spleen was done on 46 patients with malignant lymphomas. The biopsies were undertaken as a staging procedure in 32 patients, as a restaging procedure in 7, during follow-up in 2, and as a diagnostic step in 5 (previously undiagnosed cases with clinically and ultrasonographically suspected lymphoma). In 45 patients, the tissue core specimens obtained by US-guided biopsies were sufficient for a correct histologic examination; in one patient, the specimen was considered inadequate...
June 15, 1992: Cancer