Prevalence of epithelial abnormalities and high-risk human papilloma virus in cervicovaginal Pap smears of population subgroups as a guide toward evidence-based best practice.

abstract：:We developed the Auto Cyto Fix (ACF) 1000 as an experimental model, which was adapted as a membrane filter method for automatically making smear preparations fixed with 95% ethanol. In this study, immunohistochemistry was applied to the cells smeared on the membrane filter, and effectiveness was examined. Twenty-four ...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Iijima J,Shiina Y,Ohkoudo M,Sakuma K

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Myoepithelial carcinoma is a rare locally aggressive malignant neoplasm of the salivary glands. The tumor is composed almost exclusively of tumor cells with myoepithelial differentiation and characterized by infiltrative growth and potential for distant metastasis. Tumor cells often display morphologic heterogeneity w...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Wang Z,Herrington B,Schwartz MR,Laucirica R

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 53-yr-old woman with a 13-mo history of recurrent ovarian papillary serous adenocarcinoma presented with persistent microscopic hematuria. The patient was undergoing chemotherapy for her recurrent ovarian tumor when she was referred to the urology service for microscopic hematuria. An intravenous pyelogram was norma...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Edgerton ME,Hoda RS,Gupta PK

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enterobiasis is one of the most common human parasitic infections. It is considered an intestinal parasite, but cases of extra-intestinal affections exist, notably infections of the female genital tract. Enterobius vermicularis (EV) eggs (or ova) have been found in the cervical smears of two patients in our institute ...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Tsai CY,Junod R,Jacot-Guillarmod M,Beniere C,Ziadi S,Bongiovanni M

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Paget's disease of the vulva is a rare entity; since it may show the same clinical symptoms as benign chronic vulvitis, it may result in a delayed diagnosis. A 63-year-old woman was found to have an eczematoid pink to red lesion located in the vulva. Scraping cytology of the vulva showed isolated malignant cells of Pa...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Funamoto Y,Haba R,Kobayashi TK,Kushida Y,Kouno K,Matsunaga T,Shiota A,Hata T

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor (IMT) is an exquisitely rare neoplasm with a low incidence of metastasis. Previously, cytologic diagnosis of this entity, by fine needle aspiration (FNA) or endoscopic ultrasound guided fine needle aspiration (EUS-FNA), was challenging, if not impossible. However, advancements in the...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Borak S,Siegal GP,Reddy V,Jhala N,Jhala D

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Afirma gene expression classifier (GEC) is being increasingly utilized to confirm the benign nature of indeterminate FNA cytology results thus avoiding unnecessary surgical procedures. However the "suspicious" result of the Afirma GEC does not classify these indeterminate nodules further in determining a...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Roychoudhury S,Klein M,Souza F,Gimenez C,Laser A,Shaheen Cocker R,Chau K,Das K

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Intraperitoneal malignant cells detection in patients with gastric cancer is associated with a significant decrease in overall survival. The overall accuracy of cytological examination of peritoneal lavages, however, is quite low, and intraperitoneal recurrence has been observed even in patients with negativ...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Taffon C,Giovannoni I,Mozetic P,Capolupo GT,La Vaccara V,Cinque C,Caricato C,Rainer A,Zelano G,Crescenzi A

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Malignant phyllodes tumor is a rare breast tumor with neoplastic epithelial and stromal components. The stromal component may show homologous and heterologous sarcomatous elements, including chondrosarcomatous and osteosarcomatous differentiation. Because these tumors may present with an almost exclusively sarcomatous...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Garcia FU,Soans S,Galindo LM

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fine-needle aspiration cytology (FNA) was performed on a breast lump in a 66-year-old female, clinically thought to be a carcinoma. The cytological findings were reported as suspicious of malignancy. Subsequent histological examination showed a tumour macroscopically and microscopically identical with six other cases ...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Lew WY

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fine needle aspiration (FNA) is a valuable, noninvasive, commonly used technique in the diagnoses of head and neck tumors. Adult rhabdomyoma is a rare benign tumor of striate muscle tissue usually located in the head and neck region. Cytomorphologically, the tumor cells have eosinophilic finely granular cytoplasm, whi...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Jin B,Saleh H

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Papanicolaou Society of Cytopathology has developed a set of guidelines for pancreaticobiliary cytology including indications for endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) and fine-needle aspiration (FNA) biopsy, techniques for EUS-FNA, terminology and nomenclature to be used for pancreaticobiliary disease, ancillary testing, a...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Adler D,Max Schmidt C,Al-Haddad M,Barthel JS,Ljung BM,Merchant NB,Romagnuolo J,Shaaban AM,Simeone D,Bishop Pitman M,Field A,Layfield LJ,Papanicolaou Society of Cytopathology.

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The diagnosis of transitional cell carcinoma (TCC) in bladder washes is a diagnostic challenge to cytology. This study assessed the role of flow cytometry (FCM), image analysis (IA), and interphase cytogenetics by fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) as adjuncts in the cytodiagnosis of TCC in bladder washes. Fort...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Cajulis RS,Haines GK 3rd,Frias-Hidvegi D,McVary K,Bacus JW

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cytologic diagnosis of papillary thyroid carcinoma is straightforward in most instances. However, there are some mimics including goitrous nodules and Hurthle cell neoplasms. Many studies have shown the combination of HBME-1 and CK19 expression to be useful in reaching a correct histologic diagnosis on tissue sect...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Nga ME,Lim GS,Soh CH,Kumarasinghe MP

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study is to evaluate the diagnostic values of the fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH), NMP22 BladderChek, and liquid-based cytology (LBC) in the detection of bladder urothelial carcinoma (UC). Consecutive voided urine samples were collected from 138 in-house patients with a variety of urologic co...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Li HX,Wang MR,Zhao H,Cao J,Li CL,Pan QJ

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our objectives were to study the types and incidence of thyroid follicular lesions coexisting with Hashimoto's thyroiditis (HT), the pitfalls in their cytodiagnosis, and the effect on management. All cases of HT diagnosed by fine-needle aspiration (FNA) and/or histology over a 7-yr period were retrospectively studied....

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Kollur SM,El Sayed S,El Hag IA

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A silver staining technique was applied to 51 thyroid smears. The numbers of silver-stained nucleolar organizer regions (AgNORs) were counted, and the mean AgNOR and nuclear area per cell were determined with an image analyzer. The mean AgNOR count per cell was significantly higher in malignant than in benign lesions,...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Solymosi T,Tóth V,Sápi Z,Bodó M,Gál I,Csanádi L

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:The incidence of thyroid cancer is increasing which can be attributed in part to improved ultrasonography (US) methods and increased detection of incidental thyroid carcinomas (ITC). We aimed to compare ITC with nonincidental thyroid carcinomas (NITC) in this study. METHODS:Retrospective analyses of 906 i...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Evranos B,Polat SB,Cuhaci FN,Baser H,Topaloglu O,Kilicarslan A,Kilic M,Ersoy R,Cakir B

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We evaluated the diagnostic contribution of adjunct studies performed on aspirated material in the work-up of pediatric fine-needle aspiration (FNA) biopsies. Ancillary studies were performed on 54 of 136 (39.7%) pediatric FNA biopsies during a 5-year period. In 23 (16.9%) cases, immunocytochemical (ICC) studies, cons...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Gurley AM,Silverman JF,Lassaletta MM,Wiley JE,Holbrook CT,Joshi VV

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Urothelial carcinoma (UCC) of the bladder is the most common malignancy of the urinary tract. The performance of urine cytology (UCy) after radical cystectomy (RC) and urinary diversion is quite variable and there is no consensus regarding its role in post-treatment surveillance. The goal of this study is ...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Shanmugam V,Geraghty B,DeSimone RA,Hoda RS

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors evaluate 213 consecutive breast cancer cases with positive fine-needle aspiration cytology. Cytologic smears were reviewed and classified according to a grading system. A correlation between cytologic grading and pathological stage (T and N category) was observed. Univariate analysis of 5-yr overall surviv...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Ciatto S,Bonardi R,Herd-Smith A,Cariaggi P,Confortini M,Bulgaresi P

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fine-needle aspiration (FNA) is a minimally invasive, fast, and accurate diagnostic method for the evaluation of patients with locally recurrent or distant metastases of malignant melanoma. In the vast majority of cases, the diagnosis is straightforward with the characteristic cytologic features well documented in the...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Hanley KZ,Weiss SW,Logani S

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary pancreatic leiomyosarcomas are rare tumors of the pancreas that are usually diagnosed after resection or by biopsy. One case in the literature has utilized endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine needle aspiration (EUS-FNA) cytology. We report a second case of a primary pancreatic leiomyosarcoma that yielded diagnos...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Reyes MC,Huang X,Bain A,Ylagan L

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of florid microglandular hyperplasia of the uterine cervix that contained cells with severe atypia suggesting malignancy on a Papanicolaou smear is reviewed. Findings from 25 additional smears from patients with microglandular hyperplasia are reported. These sometimes contained glandular cells with varying degr...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Yahr LJ,Lee KR

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spindle epithelial tumor with thymus-like differentiation (SETTLE) is a rare biphasic tumor of the thyroid with approximately 20 well-documented cases reported in the English literature. Although a monophasic variant of SETTLE is conceivable, the majority of the reported cases were truly biphasic tumors. A minimal amo...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Tong GX,Hamele-Bena D,Wei XJ,O'Toole K

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytologically, the distinction between bronchioalveolar carcinoma and reactive/reparative processes of respiratory epithelium can be difficult. Retrospectively, we have identified 11 consecutive cases of bronchioalveolar carcinoma from the cytology files of University Missouri-Kansas City/Truman Medical Center. On ave...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Fiorella RM,Gurley SD,Dubey S

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Thin Prep Pap Test (Cytyc Corp., Boxborough, MA) received approval by the Food and Drug Administration in May 1996 as an alternative to the traditional conventional smear. The present direct-to-vial study assessed the utility of thin-layer technology for cervicovaginal screening in clinical practice. From May 1997...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Guidos BJ,Selvaggi SM

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fine-needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) of the breast is a minimally invasive yet maximally diagnostic method, often precluding the need of an open biopsy. In young women, in whom breast cancer is a rare disorder, it is also important that carcinoma is recognized without delay so that an appropriate plan of management ...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Gupta RK,Naran S,Buchanan A,Fauck R,Simpson J

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Distinguishing metastatic carcinoma cells from reactive mesothelial cells in effusion samples is often challenging based on morphology alone. Metastatic carcinoma cells in fluid samples may mimic reactive mesothelial cells due to overlapping cytological features. We report a case of a pleural effusion in a 51-year-old...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Chowdhuri SR,Fetsch P,Squires J,Kohn E,Filie AC

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Strumal carcinoid is a rare ovarian tumor defined as carcinoid associated with struma ovarii. We report here the second cytological case of strumal carcinoid and performed immunocytochemical analysis for the first time. A 68-year-old Japanese female was found to have a solid tumor with small cystic components in the l...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Ishida M,Arimoto T,Sandoh K,Okano K,Ebisu Y,Ito H,Matsumoto M,Mizokami T,Kita M,Okada H,Tsuta K

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00