Application of immunostaining for muscle specific actin in detection of myoepithelial cells in breast fine-needle aspirates.

abstract：:Mycobacterial infection, tuberculosis (TB) in particular, remains one of the world's deadliest communicable diseases in adults and particularly in children, in low and middle income countries. The combination of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and TB is often lethal with TB accounting for 25% of deaths in the HIV p...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Michelow P,Omar T,Field A,Wright C

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Herpes simplex is an uncommon cause of lower respiratory tract infection that requires prompt diagnosis and treatment to prevent late complications. We report two cases with simultaneous herpes simplex virus infection of the lower respiratory tract and lung carcinoma. Cytology of bronchial brushing and washing fluids ...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Maounis N,Blana A,Ellina E,Chorti M,Lekkakou A,Mermigkis D,Spanakis N,Emmanouilidou A

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tuberculosis is one of the oldest diseases known to affect humans and is caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Lymph nodes are the most common site of extrapulmonary involvement. Tuberculous lymphadenitis can be presumptively diagnosed morphologically on fine-needle aspiration biopsy of lymph nodes. Additional tests l...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Joshi P,Singh M,Bhargava A,Singh M,Mehrotra R

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serous tubal intraepithelial carcinoma (STIC) has attracted attention as a precursor lesion of high-grade serous carcinoma (HGSC) of the ovary. We report the rare case of a woman in whom adenocarcinoma cells were detected in cervical smears and demonstrated to be derived from STIC in the fimbria. The patient was a 48-...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Shintaku M,Taniguchi H,Yamamoto Y,Kono F,Sumitomo M

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:GATA-3 is a transcription factor involved in human tissue growth and differentiation. It is a potential marker for breast carcinoma origin in metastasis and predictive of good prognosis. We aim to evaluate the role of GATA3 in determining the breast origin of metastatic adenocarcinoma in malignant effusions ...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： El Hag MI,Ha J,Farag R,El Hag AM,Michael CW

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hairy cell leukaemia (HCL) is a rare lymphoproliferative disorder of B cell origin, and uncommonly it affects the lymph node. Fine needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) of lymph node of HCL has rarely been described. CASE DESCRIPTION AND DIAGNOSIS:A 41-year-old man presented with pallor, fever, tachycardia, gen...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Suneel R,Rajasekaran S,Kaur H,Mallik N,Garg D,Jain A,Dey P

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pancreatic adenocarcinoma is a genetic disease showing somatic mutations of multiple genes, including SMAD4. SMAD4 is a tumor suppressor gene that is inactivated in a sub-set of pancreatic adenocarcinoma, either by the intragenic mutation of one allele in combination with the loss of the other allele or by homozygous ...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Ali S,Cohen C,Little JV,Sequeira JH,Mosunjac MB,Siddiqui MT

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fine-needle aspiration cytology of a presacral chordoma without the classic physaliforous cells is reported. The potential for the misdiagnosis of these lesions when these cells are absent is discussed. The pertinent literature related to this case is reviewed. ...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Thompson SK,Callery RT

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A continuing problem in cytology laboratories is the lack of adequate control material for immunocytochemical testing. Usual control procedures involve testing paraffin-embedded control materials along with the patient specimens. These control materials are fundamentally unlike cytologic preparations. We have develope...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Kurtycz DF,Logrono R,Leopando M,Slattery A,Inhorn SL

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Filariasis is a major public health problem in tropical and subtropical countries including India. Although there are reports of incidentally diagnosed cases of lymphatic filariasis in the existing literature, the significance of this finding needs to be summarised in one place. The association of filariasis with neop...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Gupta S,Gupta R,Bansal B,Singh S,Gupta K,Kudesia M

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mammary analogue secretory carcinoma (MASC) is a recently described salivary gland neoplasm that is defined by ETV6-NTRK3 gene fusion. There have been few case reports on the cytopathologic features of MASC to date. We examined the clinicopathological and cytological features of seven cases of MASC defined by RT-PCR a...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Higuchi K,Urano M,Takahashi RH,Oshiro H,Matsubayashi J,Nagai T,Obikane H,Shimojo H,Nagao T

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A single a case of malignant triton tumor, presented as a neck mass in a 34 year old female diagnosed solely by fine needle aspiration, is reported. The diagnosis was supported by immunohistochemical staining and electron microscopic examination that showed evidence of both schwannian and rhabdomyoblastic differentiat...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Abu-Farsakh H

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a case of intraductal carcinoma (comedo type) in a 50-yr-old male. The patient had presented with a bloody nipple discharge, which had shown malignant cells on cytologic examination. In current clinical practice, the use of nipple discharge cytology as a screening and diagnostic tool for breast carcinoma i...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Hirschman SA,Hoda SA,May M,Cody HS 3rd

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bilateral testicular fine-needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) was performed in 100 males, including 10 controls with normal fertility and 90 infertile azoospermic males. The various seminiferous tubular cells were easily identified in smears. It was possible to give a cytological diagnosis in histologic terms by analysi...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Rajwanshi A,Indudhara R,Goswami AK,Radhika S,Das A,Sharma SK,Vaidyanathan S,Datta BN

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytological and histological findings of a rare case of a malignant phyllodes tumor (with liposarcomatous components) of the breast are presented. The atypia of the stromal cells and naked nuclei in a lesion considered benign clinically and on imaging alerted us to the possibility of a phyllodes tumor, despite the low...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Satou T,Matsunami N,Fujiki C,Tanaka K,Hayashi Y,Hashimoto S

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Ubiquilin 2 (UBQLN2), an ubiquitin-related protein, is strongly expressed in urothelial carcinoma cells, in contrast to no or less expression in non-neoplastic cells; it protects cancer cells from reactive oxygen species (ROS)-induced cytotoxicity. In this study, we investigated whether UBQLN2 immunostaining...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Shimada K,Fujii T,Tatsumi Y,Anai S,Fujimoto K,Konishi N

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cytologic features of a case of allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis (ABPA) are reported and the literature reviewed. The bronchial brushing smears in this case showed mucus that contained laminated aggregates of eosinophils with scattered Charcot-Leyden crystals and fungal hyphae. These cytologic findings, ove...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Chen KT

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Telomerase is inactive in most somatic cells, but has been found to be reactivated in a majority of cancers. Our principal goal was to test whether the presence of telomerase activity concurred with positive cytology, and was thus of potential use in detecting cancer cells in effusions. The telomeric repeat amplificat...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Braunschweig R,Yan P,Guilleret I,Delacretaz F,Bosman FT,Mihaescu A,Benhattar J

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We prospectively performed cytologic assessment and image analysis (IA) on matched nipple aspirate fluid (NAF) and mammary ductoscopy (MD) specimens to determine (1) the accuracy of these methods in cancer detection and (2) whether the two collection methods provide complementary information.NAF and MD specimens were ...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Sauter ER,Klein-Szanto A,Macgibbon B,Ehya H

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The presence of malignant pleural effusion in patients with non-small cell bronchogenic cancer has a poor prognostic significance and is indicative of advanced disease (T4, IIIB). The present study will investigate the role of cytology and identify the various cellular components seen in thoracic washings, in the abse...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Vinette-Leduc D,Yazdi HM,Valji A,Shamji F,Maziak D

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Liquid-based cytology (LBC) testing induces morphologic changes due to the use of specific fixatives and preparation techniques, and the cytologies of effusions determined in this manner differ morphologically from those of conventional cytopreparation (CCP) smear methods. We compared the cytologic features ...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Kim L,Choi SJ,Park IS,Han JY,Kim JM,Chu YC

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This report details the cytologic features of primary localized amyloid tumor of the breast presenting as bilateral breast masses in a 72-yr-old woman. Clinically and radiographically, the masses simulated metastatic or multifocal carcinoma. Fine-needle aspiration revealed irregular globules of acellular amorphous mat...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Lynch LA,Moriarty AT

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The US Preventive Services Task Force (USPTF) has recommended that routine vaginal Pap (V-Pap) screening is unnecessary for women status-post (S/P) total hysterectomy (T-Hyst) for benign disease (Guide to Clinical Preventive Services. 2nd ed. Baltimore, MD: Williams & Wilkins; 1996. p 105-118). However, many US women ...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Farghaly H,Bourgeois D,Houser PM,Padmanabhan V,Lage JM,Hoda RS

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Metastatic cancer involving the uterine cervix is exceedingly rare, and accounts for less than 1% of cancer deaths. The cervix is an uncommon location for metastatic lesions due to its limited blood supply and fibrous stroma and metastatic melanoma of the cervix is particularly infrequent. To the best of our knowledge...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Shachner TR,Van Meter SE

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a patient with chronic renal failure and ciliocytophthoria or "detached ciliary tufts" identified from her peritoneal fluid. The recognition of these rare structures is critical to avoid misdiagnosing a presumed protozoan infection and embarking on further costly investigations and unnecessary treatments. ...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Vila M,Thompson K,Erdem G

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumor cytology has proven to be inadequate for precise diagnosis of thyroid follicular adenoma. This suggests the need for a molecular approach for its diagnosis. Expression of CD26/DPPIV (dipeptidyl peptidas IV), p53, and PTEN was analyzed in smears or sections obtained from 19 patients with histologically proven thy...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Miyake Y,Aratake Y,Sakaguchi T,Kiyoya K,Kuribayashi T,Marutsuka K,Ohno E

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A lipoblastoma is a rare benign tumor of immature white fat, and more than 90% of lipoblastomas occur before the age of 3 years. The diagnosis of a lipoblastoma is mostly dependent on a histopathological examination of a surgically excised specimen. However, an accurate preoperative diagnosis is essential for the plan...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Hong R,Choi DY,Do NY,Lim SC

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of ultrasound-guided fine-needle aspiration (FNA) biopsy for nonpalpable breast lesions varies considerably. This retrospective study stresses the role of breast FNA in evaluating sonographically suspicious nonpalpable breast masses using a probabilistic reporting system. One hundred and eight consecutive ultr...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Liao J,Davey DD,Warren G,Davis J,Moore AR,Samayoa LM

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Salivary duct carcinoma is a high grade malignancy which histologically strongly resembles ductal carcinoma of the breast. The findings from five cases of histologically proven salivary duct carcinoma sampled by preoperative fine-needle aspiration (FNA) cytology are presented. Characteristic cytomorphologic features i...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Fýrat P,Cramer H,Feczko JD,Kratzer S,Layfield LJ,Eisenhut CC,Glant MD

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Early and accurate diagnosis of hepatocellular carcinoma in liver nodules using fine-needle aspiration biopsy can still pose difficulties, particularly in cirrhotic nodules containing dysplastic hepatocytes. Loss of architectural clues, which may aid diagnosis, can be overcome by using confocal scanning laser microsco...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Boon ME,Barlow Y,Marres EM,Zeppa P,Kok LP

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00