Value of Liver and Spleen Aspiration Biopsy in Malignant Diseases when these Organs Show no Signs of Involvement in Sonography
| Autor: | P. Vuopio, P. Gröhn, S. Bondestam, Sten-Erik Jansson, E. Heinonen |
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| Rok vydání: | 2009 |
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Adult
Pathology medicine.medical_specialty Adolescent Lymphoma Spleen Disease Malignancy immune system diseases Neoplasms hemic and lymphatic diseases Aspiration biopsy Internal Medicine medicine Humans In patient Aged Ultrasonography business.industry Biopsy Needle Carcinoma Middle Aged medicine.disease Hodgkin Disease medicine.anatomical_structure Liver business Infiltration (medical) |
| Zdroj: | Acta Medica Scandinavica. 213:279-281 |
| ISSN: | 0001-6101 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/j.0954-6820.1983.tb03734.x |
| Popis: | To determine whether an aspiration biopsy of liver and/or spleen is likely to reveal a clinically silent malignant infiltration, fine-needle aspiration biopsies were carried out in 180 patients with a diagnosed malignancy in whom neither the liver nor the spleen gave signs of involvement in sonography. Few, if any, findings were positive in patients with cancer or Hodgkin's disease. In non-Hodgkin lymphoma, about 25% of the biopsies were positive for malignancy or aroused suspicion of malignancy. We conclude that fine-needle aspiration biopsies of the liver and spleen may be of value in the clinical follow-up of non-Hodgkin lymphoma. |
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