학술논문
Gamma heavy chain disease: cytological diagnosis of a rare lymphoid malignancy facilitated by correlation with key laboratory findings.
Document Type
Article
Source
Subject
*CYTOLOGY
*LYMPHOID tissue
*NEEDLE biopsy
*CANCER diagnosis
*MEDICAL care
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Language
ISSN
0956-5507
Abstract
The article presents a case report of a 92-year-old Somali woman with a past medical history of hypertension, chronic hepatitis B and malaria. The patient presented with arthralgias and was found to be hypercalcaemic and pancytopaenic on routine blood investigations. It mentions that the case illustrates the utility of fine needle aspiration (FNA) in providing a straightforward and minimally invasive method of lymphoid malignancy diagnosis.