Lymph node and splenic imprints: their value in diagnosis.

Comparison was made of the value of information obtained from imprints and from histological sections of lymph nodes from 100 biopsies on patients with mainly haematological disorders and 55 spleens removed surgically. The sections provided the definitive diagnosis. It was seldom possible to make a definite diagnosis from imprints, but they provide additional information useful in interpreting the histology of sections.