How to check lymphoma

Lymphoma, this disease has many different manifestations in specific clinical situations, that is, the diseased parts have many different forms and pains. In terms of examination, doctors generally take samples of some tissues from the patient's diseased parts for examination. So, how to examine lymphoma?

1. Routine blood tests and blood smears are generally normal, but may be combined with anemia of chronic disease; HL may show an increase in PLT, WBC, and eosinophilia; aggressive NHL invading the bone marrow may cause anemia, a decrease in WBC and PLT, and lymphoma cells may appear in the peripheral blood.
2. Bone marrow smear and biopsy
HL rarely involves the bone marrow. NHL invades the bone marrow, and lymphoma cells can be seen in bone marrow smears. The cells are large, rich in chromatin, gray-blue, and obviously abnormal in morphology, with a "tailing phenomenon"; lymphoma cells greater than 20% are lymphoma leukemia; bone marrow biopsy can show lymphoma cell aggregation and infiltration. Some patients have increased hemophagocytosis and hemophagocytosis in bone marrow smears, which are more common in T-cell NHL.