No. | Age ranges | Biopsy methods | ||||||||||
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Needle aspiration or excision biopsy of lymph node | Needle aspiration biopsy of lung lesion | Bronchoscopy or BAL | TBLB or TBNA | Thoracocentesis | Bone marrow aspiration | Lumbar puncture | Mediastinoscopy | Thoracoscopy | Surgical Operation | Postmortem | ||
1 | 55–60 | √ | √ | √ | √ | |||||||
2 | 35–40 | √ | √ | |||||||||
3 | 70–75 | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | ||||||
4 | 40–45 | √ | √ | |||||||||
5 | 40–45 | √ | √ | |||||||||
6 | 10–15 | √√ | √ | √ | ||||||||
7 | 60–65 | √ | √ | |||||||||
8 | 60–65 | √ | √ | |||||||||
9 | 65–70 | √ | √ | √ | √√ | |||||||
10 | 55–60 | √ | √ | √ | ||||||||
11 | 25–30 | √ | √ | √ | ||||||||
12 | 15–20 | √ | √ | |||||||||
13 | 10–15 | √ | √ | √ | √ | |||||||
14 | 65–70 | √ | √ | |||||||||
15 | 65–70 | √ | √ | √√ | √ | |||||||
16 | 70–75 | √ | √ | √ | ||||||||
17 | 80–85 | √ | ||||||||||
18 | 65–70 | √ |