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Question 1 of 5
Your patient arrives at the clinic with a swelling in the mandibular area. You are not certain if this is a lymph node or salivary gland by palpation, so you aspirate it. Here is your aspirate. What is this structure?
This is non-diagnostic cellular garbage
Salivary gland
Lymph node
Question 2 of 5
When assessing whether a cell is intact enough, you want to look for:
Intact cytoplasmic borders
Prominent nucleoli
Cytoplasmic vacuoles
Question 3 of 5
Which of the following preparation techniques gives the most reliably diagnostic results?
Squash/smear technique
Scratch/starfish technique
Spray technique
Question 4 of 5
Which of the following is NOT a cytologic feature of reactive lymph nodes?
Increased numbers of plasma cells
Mott cells
>75% large lymphocytes
Question 5 of 5
What is one way to increase the sharpness of your field when viewing a sample at 40x?
Blow on the slide
Use a coverslip
Turn the light on the microscope up to max brightness