CSF cytology - The ongoing dilemma to distinguish neoplastic and inflammatory lymphocytes

Diagnostic Cytopathology

Volumn 39, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 621-626

  Perske, Christina ^a   Nagel, Ingelore ^a   Nagel, Holger ^a   Strik, Herwig ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

CSF cytology; inflammation; leukemia; lymphoma

Indexed keywords

ADHESIVE AGENT; CYTOSPIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACUTE LEUKEMIA; ACUTE LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; B CELL LYMPHOMA; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BURKITT LYMPHOMA; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL SIZE; CELL STRUCTURE; CENTROCYTIC CENTROBLASTIC LYMPHOMA; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID CYTOLOGY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; CYTOPLASM; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FOLLICULAR LYMPHOMA; HEMATOLOGIC MALIGNANCY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOBLASTIC LYMPHOMA; INFLAMMATORY CELL; INTESTINE LIPODYSTROPHY; LARGE CELL LYMPHOMA; LYME DISEASE; LYMPHOBLASTOMA; LYMPHOCYTE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MITOSIS; MUCOSA ASSOCIATED LYMPHOID TISSUE LYMPHOMA; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; OPTIC NEURITIS; PRIMARY CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM LYMPHOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRUS MENINGITIS;

B-LYMPHOCYTES; CELL NUCLEUS SHAPE; CELL NUCLEUS SIZE; CELL SHAPE; CELL SIZE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTIONS; CHROMATIN; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; LYMPHOMA, NON-HODGKIN; MITOSIS; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; WHIPPLE DISEASE;

EID: 79960384884     PISSN: 87551039     EISSN: 10970339     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dc.21510     Document Type: Article

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