Histopathological Review of Diagnostic Categories of the Bethesda System for Reporting Thyroid Cytopathology - An Institutional Experience of 5 Years.

abstract：Aims:Tzanck smear is an old but useful test for diagnosis of cutaneous dermatoses. The aim of this study was to highlight the potential usefulness and diagnostic pitfalls of Tzanck smear for diagnosis of cutaneous dermatoses and infections. Materials and Methods:This hospital based cross-sectional study was carried ou...

journal_title：Journal of cytology

authors： Panwar H,Joshi D,Goel G,Asati D,Majumdar K,Kapoor N

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cancer of the cervix has been considered as one of the preventable cancers. This study is the first published research addressing the screening of cancer of the cervix in the eastern region of Saudi Arabia. AIM:This study aims to detect the prevalence of abnormal epithelial changes and its types in the east...

journal_title：Journal of cytology

authors： Balaha MH,Al Moghannum MS,Al Ghowinem N,Al Omran S

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intravascular papillary endothelial hyperplasia (IVPEH) is an unusual form of intravascular endothelial proliferation. Fine needle aspiration (FNA) diagnosis of IVPEH is quite challenging and only rare reports of the cytopathological features of this entity have been published. We report a case of a 55-year-old female...

journal_title：Journal of cytology

authors： Kovalovsky A,Reynders A,Khurana K

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Cervical intraepithelial neoplasia and cervical cancer remain important health problems. Cervical cytology by Papanicolaou (Pap) smears is an effective means of screening for cervical premalignant and malignant conditions. AIM:The aim of this study was to assess the prevalence of cervical dysplasia in pre...

journal_title：Journal of cytology

authors： Gupta K,Malik NP,Sharma VK,Verma N,Gupta A

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of lymphoepithelial carcinoma (LEC) occurring in right submandibular gland of a 13-year-old Indian male is presented, wherein the lesion unveiled itself only after multiple fine needle aspiration (FNA) procedures. This unusual neoplasm has high frequency of occurrence in Eskimos and a predilection for the parot...

journal_title：Journal of cytology

authors： Amit S,Agarwal A,Khan L

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary splenic angiosarcoma is a rare malignant vascular neoplasm of mesenchymal origin. The tumor is highly aggressive and has a high metastatic potential. It is usually diagnosed on histopathological examination of splenectomy specimen. Only few cases of angiosarcoma diagnosed by fine-needle aspiration (FNA) cytolo...

journal_title：Journal of cytology

authors： Sharma S,Singh P,Gupta P,Lal A,Srinivasan R

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Castleman's disease (CD), also called giant lymph nodal hyperplasia, is a lymphoproliferative disorder secondary to lymphoid follicle hyperplasia and marked capillary proliferation with endothelial hyperplasia. It presents as enlarged lymph nodes in the mediastinum, neck, groin, axilla and other sites. On clinical exa...

journal_title：Journal of cytology

authors： Sudha A,Vivekanand N

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Salivary gland small cell carcinoma (SGSmCC) is extremely rare, accounting for less than 1% of salivary gland tumors. A 42-year-old female patient came to the outpatient clinic due to a mass localized in the left submandibular space and that had been growing since 3-4 months. The fine needle aspiration cytology (FNAC)...

journal_title：Journal of cytology

authors： Altinay S,Firat P,Yalçin Ş,Taşkin Ü

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tuberculosis of cervix is a rare disease. Tuberculosis usually affects women of childbearing age, indicating hormone dependence of infection. The patient presents with menstrual irregularities, infertility or vaginal discharge. Cervical lesions presents as papillary/vegetative growth or ulceration mimicking cervical c...

journal_title：Journal of cytology

authors： Kalyani R,Sheela S,Rajini M

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chondroid syringoma is a rare benign adnexal tumor of sweat glands with microscopic resemblance to the salivary gland pleomorphic adenoma. Cytology is rarely utilized for preoperative assessment of these slow-growing, small, nodular lesions. Definitive cytological diagnosis is also quite difficult, and majority of the...

journal_title：Journal of cytology

authors： Pal S,Sengupta S,Jana S,Bose K

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Oral lichen planus (OLP) is one of the potentially malignant disorders (PMDs) with a malignancy rate of 0.2-2%. Aneuploidy is considered to be one of the important markers for malignant transformation and DNA-image cytometry (DIC) has been successfully employed in oral mucosal PMDs and also in tumors of the ...

journal_title：Journal of cytology

authors： Chitturi RT,Nirmal RM,Sunil PM,Devy AS,Reddy BV

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Liquid-based cytology (LBC) preparation is a way to improve and refine the fine-needle aspiration (FNA) samples. There are a few studies comparing LBC with conventional smear (CS). AIM:The present study was undertaken to evaluate the utility of manual LBC (MLBC) and CS preparations in various FNA samples. ...

journal_title：Journal of cytology

authors： Arul P

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The cytological examinations of serous effusions have been well-accepted, and a positive diagnosis is often considered as a definitive diagnosis. It helps in staging, prognosis and management of the patients in malignancies and also gives information about various inflammatory and non-inflammatory lesions. D...

journal_title：Journal of cytology

authors： Shivakumarswamy U,Arakeri SU,Karigowdar MH,Yelikar B

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Micronucleus (MN) is an extranuclear body within the cell formed due to failure of incorporation of whole chromosomes or their fragments during cell division. MN scoring can be done to identify malignant effusions. Aims:This study aimed to score micronuclei to distinguish malignant effusion from benign effu...

journal_title：Journal of cytology

authors： Jayakumar D,Kasturi KK

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary (spontaneous) umbilical endometriosis is very rare with an estimated incidence of 0.5-1% of all patients with endometrial ectopia. Endometriosis is a common gynecological condition, the pelvis being the most common site of the disease. Extrapelvic site is less common and even more difficult to diagnose due to ...

journal_title：Journal of cytology

authors： Fernandes H,Marla NJ,Pailoor K,Kini R

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tissue diagnosis of small round cell tumors relies heavily on immunohistochemical staining. Two of the small round cell tumors, namely neuroblastoma and primitive neuroectodermal tumor, have considerable morphologic overlap. Many studies suggest that CD99 positivity virtually excludes the diagnosis of neuroblastoma. W...

journal_title：Journal of cytology

authors： Kaur G,Bakshi P,Verma K

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adult-type granulosa cell tumors (AGCT) account for 1-2% of all ovarian tumors and 95% of granulosa cell tumors. In AGCT, at the time of peritoneal washing, tumor cells are rarely seen to exfoliate and FIGO stage is raised from IA/IB or IIA/IIB to stage IC or IIC despite the absence of a gross intraepithelial tumor. P...

journal_title：Journal of cytology

authors： Atilgan AO,Tepeoglu M,Ozen O,Bilezikçi B

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：Context:Intraoperative pathological assessment provides valuable information in a patient's diagnosis and management. Touch imprint/crush cytology is simple, rapid, and cost-effective. Also, imprint smears give excellent cytomorphology. Aims:To assess the utility and feasibility of intraoperative cytology technique as...

journal_title：Journal of cytology

authors： Jaiswal YP,Gadkari RU

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lung cancer (LC) is the leading cause of cancer-related mortality. Unfortunately, most patients of LC present at the advanced stage of the disease with a poor prognosis and 1-year survival of less than 20%. At the advanced stage of the disease, surgical resection cannot be possible, hence small biopsy or cytology spec...

journal_title：Journal of cytology

authors： Jain D

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:It has been shown that cigarette smoking as well as diabetes mellitus can produce cytomorphometric alterations in oral epithelial cells with the significant increase in the nuclear area (NA) and significant decrease in the cytoplasmic/nuclear ratio in comparison to healthy control. However, the synergistic e...

journal_title：Journal of cytology

authors： Patel PV,Gujjari SK

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Cervical cancer is one of the most frequent malignancies in women. Micronucleus (MN) testing has gained popularity as a biomarker in early diagnosis of many types of cancer. Aims:This study aims to investigate the role of MN testing on early detection of cervical cancer and the effect of boron exposure on c...

journal_title：Journal of cytology

authors： Yıldırım H,Göker A,Demirci H,Güvenal T,Korkmaz M

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Extra-abdominal desmoid tumors are known as aggressive fibromatosis (AFM). Synchronous and metachronous multicentric aggressive fibromatosis are rare lesions and pose dilemma in diagnosis and management. A rare and interesting case of recurrent multicentric, synchronous AFM is presented which to the best of our knowle...

journal_title：Journal of cytology

authors： Kohli K,Kawatra V,Khurana N,Jain S

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Synovial sarcomas are rare tumors accounting for approximately 5-10% of soft tissue sarcomas. They occur predominantly in the extremities, followed by head and neck. Primary pulmonary sarcomas are very rare and comprise only 0.5% of all primary lung malignancies. The diagnosis is established only after sarcomas like p...

journal_title：Journal of cytology

authors： Yaseen SB,Mustafa F,Rafiq D,Makhdoomi R,Chanda N

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) is the most common malignant neoplasm of the thyroid. On fine-needle aspiration (FNA) cytology smears of conventional PTC, the background usually shows scanty, bubble gum-like colloid. But the macrofollicular variant and papillary microcarcinoma reveals abundant thin colloid in the ba...

journal_title：Journal of cytology

authors： Muthalagan E,Subashchandrabose P,Sivasubramanian PB,Venkateswaran S

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sinus histiocytosis with massive lymphadenopathy (Rosai-Dorfman disease) is a rare benign disease of unknown etiology presenting with massive lymphadenopathy. These cases can often be misdiagnosed as lymphoma. Hence, it is important to distinguish Rosai-Dorfman disease from lymphoma and other causes of histiocytosis b...

journal_title：Journal of cytology

authors： Kushwaha R,Ahluwalia C,Sipayya V

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Malignant mesothelioma of pleura is a locally aggressive rare neoplasm of mesothelial cells, which produces distant metastasis in advanced stages of its course. It is exceptional for patients to present with metastasis prior to the detection of primary tumor in the pleura. Here, we report a case of malignant mesotheli...

journal_title：Journal of cytology

authors： Priya PV,Deepa S,Jayalakshmy PL

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper, we have described fine needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) of a rare case of dermal cylindroma. A 40-year-old female presented with a lateral mid-cervical swelling fixed to the skin. FNAC smears showed multiple clusters of small, round to oval cells with hyperchromatic nuclei, inconspicuous nucleoli and s...

journal_title：Journal of cytology

authors： Gupta P,Dey P,Bal A

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is only one report on cytological findings of oncocytic variant of chromophobe renal cell carcinoma (RCC). In this article, we report a new case with focus on cytological, and ultrastructural findings. A 60-year-old Japanese man was found to have a right renal tumor on medical checkup. In imprint cytological mat...

journal_title：Journal of cytology

authors： Yamaguchi T,Hirota E,Kuroda N

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fibromatosis colli is a peculiar, benign fibrous growth of the sternocleidomastoid that usually appears during the first few weeks of life and is often associated with muscular torticollis. Fibromatosis colli (FC) is seen in children born after difficult, prolonged labor, assisted delivery, and breech deliveries. Clin...

journal_title：Journal of cytology

authors： Rajalakshmi V,Selvambigai G,Jaiganesh

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:Surgical pathology service is generally unavailable in most developing countries and comes with challenges. Cytopathology is a reliable, inexpensive adjunct to surgical histopathology. We present a retrospective review of the various cytopathology cases received at the department. MATERIALS AND METHODS:A retrospec...

journal_title：Journal of cytology

authors： Duduyemi BM,Owusu-Afriyie O,Danquah KO,Osakunor DN

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00