Published on Nov 2, 2020
Robbins Review Vignettes

During a routine health maintenance examination, a 46-year-old man is found to have an enlarged, nontender supraclavicular lymph node that is palpable on physical examination. The 2-cm node is excised. Histologically, the nodal architecture is effaced by a monomorphous population of small lymphocytes. Which of the following procedures would best confirm that the patient has a malignancy?

  • Peripheral WBC count and differential cell count
  • Flow cytometry of nodal tissue for DNA content
  • Electron microscopy to determine cellular ultrastructure
  • Southern blot analysis to demonstrate monoclonality


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