Gastric Malignant Lymphoma: Increasing Accuracy in Diagnosis

Newer Advances in the Exfoliative Cytology of the Gastrointestinal Tract

“…Small cell lymphomas may be impossible to diagnose because the individual exfoliated cells show no clear malignant characteristics. 87 The diagnosis, in these cases, is primarily an architectural one, necessitating tissue examination. The cytologic diagnosis of gastric lymphoma is not possible if the tumor has not penetrated the mucosal surface sufficiently to exfoliate cells.…”