Table 4. Diagnostic work-up of nine patients with non-malignant diagnoses at CNB for whom lymphoma could not be definitively ruled out by CNB results.

CNB results	Final diagnostical procedure	Final diagnosis
Mix lymphocytic infiltrate	Patient lost of follow-up	Histological result of CNB could not be confirmed
Necrotising granulomatous inflammation	Cultures positive for MT	Tuberculosis
Necrotising granulomatous inflammation	Bronchoscopy Cultures positive for MT	Tuberculosis
Benign fibroadipose tissue	Spontaneous resolved process on follow-up	Benign axillary lymph node
Non-necrot.. non-granulo. react. lymphadenitis	Resolved process on clinical follow-up	Benign cervical lymph node
Acute and chronic inflammation	Subsequent surgical biopsy of the identical lymph node	Acute and necrotising lymph node inflammation
Reactive lymphoid tissue without tumour	Subsequent surgical biopsy of the identical lymph node	Fibrosis and chronic lymph node inflammation
Lymphoid tissue with follicular hyperplasia	Subsequent surgical biopsy of the identical lymph node	Reactive lymph node follicular hyperplasia
Reactive lymphoid tissue with follicular hyperplasia	Subsequent surgical biopsy of the identical lymph node	Reactive lymph node follicular hyperplasia

MT=Mycobacterium tuberculosis.