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Table 2 Procedures to diagnose B-cell lymphomas.

From: Combined detection of lymphocyte clonality and MALT1 translocations in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid for diagnosing pulmonary lymphomas

Lymphoma type	Biopsy type	Findings in BALF
Lymphoma type	Biopsy type	IGH rearrangement	TCR rearrangement	MALT1 translocation
MALT	TBLB	Positive	NA	Positive
MALT	TBLB	Positive	NA	Positive
MALT	TBLB, SLB	Positive	Negative	Negative
MALT	TBLB, SLB	Positive	Negative	Negative
MALT	TBLB, LN biopsy	Positive	Negative	Negative
MALT	TBLB, SLB	Positive	Negative	Negative
MALT	TBLB	Positive	Negative	Negative
Follicular	TBLB, bone biopsy	Positive	Negative	Negative
Lymphoplasmacytic	TBLB, LN biopsy	Negative	NA	Negative

BALF bronchoalveolar lavage fluid, LN lymph node, SLB surgical lung biopsy, MALT mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue, IGH immunoglobulin heavy chain-encoding gene, TCR T-cell receptor-encoding gene, MALT1 MALT lymphoma translocation gene 1, TBLB transbronchial lung biopsy, NA not available.

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