Diagnosis of Splenic Lymphoma by Endoscopic Ultrasound Guided Fine Needle Aspiration: A Case Report and Review of the Literature

Table 1

Splenic lymphoma cases and associated findings via EUS-FNA.

Ref.	Age/gender	Size	EUS features	FNA cytology/histology	FNA cytometry	Final diagnosis
[3]	41/male	28 mm	Hypoechoic	Hodgkin’s lymphoma	Not done	Hodgkin’s lymphoma
[3]	60/female	16 mm	Hypoechoic	Hodgkin’s lymphoma	Not done	Hodgkin’s lymphoma
[5]	69/female	66 × 46 mm	Hypoechoic, heterogeneous, sharp borders	Diffuse large B cell lymphoma	Monoclonal B cell	Diffuse large B cell lymphoma
[5]	67/male	53 × 45 mm	Hypoechoic, heterogeneous, unclear border	Follicular B cell lymphoma	Monoclonal B cell	Follicular B cell lymphoma
[4]	54/female	25 × 26	Hypoechoic, sharp border	Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma	Supported diagnosis	Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma
[4]	82/male	Not mentioned	Hypoechoic, sharp border	Large B cell lymphoma	Supported diagnosis	Large B cell lymphoma
[13]	66/male	120 × 110 mm	Hypoechoic	Diffuse large B cell lymphoma	Supported diagnosis	Diffuse large B cell lymphoma
[14]	51/male	50 × 39 mm	Hypoechoic	Diffuse large B cell lymphoma	Supported diagnosis	Diffuse large B cell lymphoma
Our case	58/female	54 × 43 mm	Hypoechoic, heterogeneous, sharp border	Follicular B cell lymphoma	Supported diagnosis	Follicular B cell lymphoma