Abstract
Primary diagnosis of lymphomas from ascitic fluid is rare. We report a case in which a patient being worked up as a case of carcinoma head of pancreas turned out to be a lymphoma on routine ascitic fluid examination and was further sub-classified as a CD 10+ B-cell lymphoma on flow cytometric analysis.
Keywords: Ascitic fluid, Lymphoma, Flow cytometry, Immuno-phenotyping, Scattergrams
Full Text
The Full Text of this article is available as a PDF (276.2 KB).
References
- 1.Das D.K. Serous effusions in malignant lymphomas: A review. Diagn Cytopathol. 2006;34(5):335–347. doi: 10.1002/dc.20432. [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
- 2.Das D.K., Gupta S.K., Datta U., Sharma S.C., Datta B.N. Malignant lymphoma of convoluted lymphocytes: Diagnosis by tine needle aspiration cytology and cytochemistry. Diagn Cytopathol. 1986;2:307–311. doi: 10.1002/dc.2840020408. [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
- 3.Das D.K., Al-Juwaiser A., George S.S., et al. Cytomorphological and immunocytochemical study of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in pleural effusion and ascitic fluid. Cytopathol. 2007;18:157–167. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2303.2007.00448.x. [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
- 4.Czader M., Ali S.Z. Flow cytometry as an adjunct to cytomorphologic analysis of serous effusions. Diagn Cytopathol. 2003;29:74–78. doi: 10.1002/dc.10307. [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
- 5.Siebert J.D., Weeks L.M., List L.W., et al. Utility of flow cytometry immunophenotyping for the diagnosis and classification of lymphoma in community hospital clinical needle aspiration/biopsies. Arch Pathol Lab Med. 2000;124:1792–1799. doi: 10.5858/2000-124-1792-UOFCIF. [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
- 6.Doyen N., Diamond L.W., Braylan R.C., editors. Flowcytom-etry in hematopathology. 1st Edition. New Jersey: Humana Press; 2003. pp. 83–85. [Google Scholar]
- 7.Craig F. Flow cytometry for hematological neoplasms. Blood. 2008;111(8):3941–3967. doi: 10.1182/blood-2007-11-120535. [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
- 8.Das D.K., Gupta S.K., Ayyagari S., Bambery P.K., Datta B.N., Datta V. Pleural effusions in non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. A cytomorphologic, cytochemical and immunologic study. Acta Cytol. 1987;31:119–124. [PubMed] [Google Scholar]