Correlation of cytopathology with flow cytometry and histopathology for the diagnosis of hematologic malignancies in young adults presenting with cervical lymphadenopathy.

FNA is a useful first-line diagnostic procedure for assessing cervical lymphadenopathy in young adults to allow for better triage of specimens for flow cytometry and/or tissue biopsy concerning for a hematologic malignancy and potentially avoid invasive excisional biopsy in a proportion of cases.