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Diagnostic categories of specimens tested.
| Diagnosis | Cervical Lymph Nodes | Intestinal wall | Peritoneum | Mesentric Lymph Nodes* | Total number of specimens |
| CASES | |||||
| Tuberculosis | 120 | 19 | 9 | 5 | 153 |
| NEGATIVE CONTROLS | |||||
| Reactive/Non Specific inflammation | 16 | 0 | 1 | 13 | 30 |
| Foreign body granuloma# | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Fungal granuloma | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Parasitic granuloma | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Malignancy | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| TOTAL | 152 | 22 | 11 | 18 | 203 |
* no associated intestinal lesion seen.
# all foreign body granuloma were in skin biopsies.
