Abstract
Fine-needle aspiration biopsy of the spleen was performed on 101 patients with suggested sarcoidosis; it was the final diagnosis in 79. Adequate specimens were obtained in all cases with a 0.8×80 mm or 0.7×40 mm disposable needle. Fine-needle biopsy specimens of the spleen showed a granulomatous reaction in 19 out of the 79 cases with sarcoidosis (24%). There were three minor biopsy complications that required no treatment.
Get full access to this article
View all access options for this article.
References
1.
Löfgren
S.
: Sarkoidos. (In Swedish.)
In : Lungsjukdomar , p. 197 . Edited by
Birath
G.
, Almqvist & Wiksell , Stockholm
1967 .
2.
Robbins
S. L.
: Lymph nodes and spleen . In : Pathology , p. 662 . Edited by
Robbins
S. L.
, W. B. Saunders Company , Philadelphia
1967 .
3.
Scadding
J. G.
Mitchell
D. N.
: Sarcoidosis . Chapman and Hall , London
1985 .
4.
Selroos
O.
: Sarcoidosis of the spleen . Acta Med. Scand.
200 (1976 ), 337 .
5.
Söderström
N.
: How to use cytodiagnostic spleen puncture . Acta Med. Scand.
199 (1976 ), 1 .