ArticleLeukemia & lymphoma2021
Impact of initial biopsy type on the time to final diagnostic biopsy in patients with follicular lymphoma and suspected histologic transformation.
Article in Leukemia & lymphoma, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 2 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- Diagnostic Performance and Safety of Ultrasound-Guided Core Needle Biopsy for Diagnosing Lymphoma: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Cancer medicine · 2025Pooled it
- Small volume biopsy diagnostic yield at initial diagnosis versus recurrence/transformation of follicular lymphoma: A retrospective Cyto-Heme Interinstitutional Collaborative study.Cancer cytopathology · 2023Article
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- Erratum issuedCorrection.2021
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Abstract
Diagnosis of histologic transformation (HT) of follicular lymphoma (FL) requires tissue biopsy. While surgical biopsy represents the gold standard, less invasive procedures such as fine-needle aspiration biopsy (FNAB) and core needle biopsy (CNB) are frequently performed. In this retrospective multi-institutional study including 269 patients with FL and suspected HT, the median time from initial clinical suspicion to final diagnostic biopsy was similar whether the workup began with FNAB, CNB, or surgical biopsy (4, 9, and 6 days, respectively;
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