Do lymphomas have an autoimmune background and how can we increase the sensitivity of the diagnosis of primary pancreatic lymphoma with relatively small samples ?

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Hematology, Ion Chiricuta Oncology Institute; Iuliu Hatieganu University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Cluj Napoca, Romania.
• ² Division of Hematopathology, Tygerberg Academic Hospital, Tygerberg; Department of Hematology, University of Stellenbosch, Cape Town, South Africa.
• ³ Department of Hematology, Ion Chiricuta Oncology Institute;
• ⁴ Department of Gastroenterology, Octavian Fodor Regional Institute for Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
• ⁵ Iuliu Hatieganu University of Medicine and Pharmacy; Department of Surgery,Ion Chiricuta Oncology Institute; Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
• ⁶ Department of Pathology,Emergency University Hospital, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
• ⁷ Department of Hematology, Ion Chiricuta Oncology Institute, Cluj Napoca, Romania.
• ⁸ Department of Hematology, University of Stellenbosch; National Health Laboratory Services, University of Stellenbosch, Cape Town, South Africa.