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Intramammary lymph nodes: cytologic findings and implications for fine-needle aspiration cytology diagnosis of breast nodules.

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Layfield, LJ; Glasgow, BJ; Hirschcowitz, S; Dodd, LG
Published in: Diagn Cytopathol
September 1997

The recognition of intramammary lymphoid proliferations is important because smears of these proliferations would be judged as insufficient by several of the published criteria for specimen adequacy. Alternatively, some might be confused with medullary carcinoma of the breast or adenocarcinomas with a "single-cell" pattern. We found 19 intramammary lymphoid proliferations in a series of 887 fine-needle aspirates of palpable breast nodules. Six were lymphomas and 13 were benign intramammary lymph nodes. Smear cellularity ranged from scant to high, but in all cases, lymphocytes dominated the cell population. The cytology of intramammary lymph nodes and lymphoma did not differ from those occurring at other sites.

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Diagn Cytopathol

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8755-1039

Publication Date

September 1997

Volume

17

Issue

3

Start / End Page

223 / 229

Location

United States

Related Subject Headings

  • Radiography
  • Pathology
  • Middle Aged
  • Lymphoma
  • Lymph Nodes
  • Humans
  • Female
  • Breast Neoplasms
  • Breast
  • Biopsy, Needle
 

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Layfield, L. J., Glasgow, B. J., Hirschcowitz, S., & Dodd, L. G. (1997). Intramammary lymph nodes: cytologic findings and implications for fine-needle aspiration cytology diagnosis of breast nodules. Diagn Cytopathol, 17(3), 223–229. https://doi.org/10.1002/(sici)1097-0339(199709)17:3<223::aid-dc11>3.0.co;2-h
Layfield, L. J., B. J. Glasgow, S. Hirschcowitz, and L. G. Dodd. “Intramammary lymph nodes: cytologic findings and implications for fine-needle aspiration cytology diagnosis of breast nodules.Diagn Cytopathol 17, no. 3 (September 1997): 223–29. https://doi.org/10.1002/(sici)1097-0339(199709)17:3<223::aid-dc11>3.0.co;2-h.
Layfield LJ, Glasgow BJ, Hirschcowitz S, Dodd LG. Intramammary lymph nodes: cytologic findings and implications for fine-needle aspiration cytology diagnosis of breast nodules. Diagn Cytopathol. 1997 Sep;17(3):223–9.
Layfield, L. J., et al. “Intramammary lymph nodes: cytologic findings and implications for fine-needle aspiration cytology diagnosis of breast nodules.Diagn Cytopathol, vol. 17, no. 3, Sept. 1997, pp. 223–29. Pubmed, doi:10.1002/(sici)1097-0339(199709)17:3<223::aid-dc11>3.0.co;2-h.
Layfield LJ, Glasgow BJ, Hirschcowitz S, Dodd LG. Intramammary lymph nodes: cytologic findings and implications for fine-needle aspiration cytology diagnosis of breast nodules. Diagn Cytopathol. 1997 Sep;17(3):223–229.
Journal cover image

Published In

Diagn Cytopathol

DOI

ISSN

8755-1039

Publication Date

September 1997

Volume

17

Issue

3

Start / End Page

223 / 229

Location

United States

Related Subject Headings

  • Radiography
  • Pathology
  • Middle Aged
  • Lymphoma
  • Lymph Nodes
  • Humans
  • Female
  • Breast Neoplasms
  • Breast
  • Biopsy, Needle