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Case Reports
. 2015 Jun;31(2):300-1.
doi: 10.1007/s12288-014-0463-4. Epub 2014 Oct 11.

Primary follicular lymphoma of the breast: a rare clinical entity diagnosed using tissue flow cytometry

Shivani Sharma  1 , Pranav Dorwal  1 , Ritesh Sachdev  1 , Amit Pande  1 , Neetu Tyagi  1 , Dharmendra Jain  1 , Vimarsh Raina  1
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Primary follicular lymphoma of the breast: a rare clinical entity diagnosed using tissue flow cytometry

Shivani Sharma et al. Indian J Hematol Blood Transfus. 2015 Jun.
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Fig. 1
Flow Cytometry findings: a Gated CD20 population; b Lambda restriction; c CD19-CD10 positivity; d CD23 positivity with CD5 negativity
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Immunohistochemistry: bcl-2 positivity (IHC ×400)
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