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Immune laboratory tests: flow cytometry and serology
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A lymph-node sample contains an expanded population of small lymphocytes. Flow cytometry shows that these cells express CD19 and CD20 but not CD3. A smaller population expresses CD3 and CD8. Both populations occupy overlapping regions on a forward-scatter versus side-scatter plot.