Sources of diagnostic discrepancies in fine-needle aspiration of the breast.

abstract：:Synovial sarcoma (SS) is one of the most common soft tissue tumors that typically presents in the extremities of young adults, but may occur at any site and affect children during the first decade. Herein we discuss a 12-yr-old male who complained of left foot pain and plantar mass. A fine-needle aspiration biopsy of ...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Bergman S,Brownlee NA,Geisinger KR,Ward WG,Pettenati MJ,Koty P,Ellis E,Beaty MW,Kilpatrick SE

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:E-cadherin (E-CD) is a cell-adhesion molecule that has been associated with invasion and metastasis in a wide variety of human neoplasms. We have recently shown that, although decreased E-CD expression is associated with increased bladder-wall invasion and higher tumor grade of infiltrating transitional cell carcinoma...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Ross JS,Cheung C,Sheehan C,del Rosario AD,Bui HX,Fisher HA

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study was to identify key diagnostic cytologic criteria for the most common myxoid sarcomas studied by fine-needle aspiration cytology. We reviewed 27 myxoid malignant fibrous histiocytomas, 8 chordomas, 16 chondrosarcomas, and 12 myxoid liposarcomas in which both cytologic specimens and final hi...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Layfield LJ,Liu K,Dodge RK

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Histoplasmosis not uncommonly causes systemic infection, particularly in immunocompromised patients. In systemic infection, the urinary tract is often involved, although the diagnosis of histoplasmosis in urine cytologic specimens has never been reported. Urinary tract histoplasmosis may present with gross hematuria, ...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Mukunyadzi P,Johnson M,Wyble JG,Scott M

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anaplastic carcinoma of the pancreas (ACP) is a rare and aggressive variant of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC). Several studies have attempted to characterize this subtype through case series or single case reports; however, ACP remains underrecognized by cytopathologists in particular, and often lumped under ...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： El Hussein S,Khader SN

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Columnar cell variant of papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) is an uncommon variant with an aggressive course as compared to classic papillary carcinoma. Cytologic diagnosis of these tumors is difficult due to absence of characteristic nuclear features of classic pattern of papillary carcinoma. We present a case of colu...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Verma R,Paul P

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over a 10-year period the Pap program at our community hospital laboratory progressed from the use of 100% conventional smears to predominantly ThinPrep (TP) and then to nearly 100% SurePath (SP). During this period the annual Pap volume grew from less than 20,000 to nearly 50,000. This retrospective review focuses on...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Nance KV

更新日期：2007-03-01 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：:The rate of positive cultures in fine-needle aspiration biopsy (FNAB) specimens is evaluated, and the value of submitting FNAB culture is assessed. Review of 3,300 FNAB specimens from 2,416 patients were tabulated for culture results, when obtained from the FNAB material. For positive culture results, clinical impact ...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Granville LA,Laucirica R,Verstovsek G

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Review of 275 consecutive peritoneal lavages and concurrent histologic material from gynecologic operations suggested that cytologic evaluation was clinically indicated for only 60.7% of the lavages, representing 46% of the patients in the study. More than one concurrent lavage was received from 21.6% of all patients ...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Walts AE

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common form of dementia. The cardinal histopathologic features include senile plaques (SPs) and neurofibrillary tangles (NFTs), and in addition, granulovacuolar degeneration (GVD) and Hirano bodies (HBs) are frequently observed in the hippocampus. We studied hippocampal cytological...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Takei H,Kosarac O,Powell SZ

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cytology of the adrenal gland is a less performed technique even in tertiary care centres; yet cytological evaluation is an important diagnostic tool for assessment of adrenal lesions. Our objective was to evaluate the diagnostic utility of FNAC smears and cellblock with immunohistochemistry (IHC) in lesions...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Mukherjee S,Sengupta M,Das RN,Chatterjee U,Kanjilal B,Basu K,Kar A,Mondal A,Mukhopadhyay S

更新日期：2020-05-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Alveolar soft part sarcoma (ASPS) is a rare, high-grade, epithelial-like sarcoma that shows characteristic histopathologic findings. Although a chromosomal anomaly that seems specific has been recently described, its diagnosis is based on histologic and ultrastructural features. The tumor shows no specific immunohisto...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： López-Ferrer P,Jiménez-Heffernan JA,Vicandi B,González-Peramato P,Viguer JM

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Current clinical practices are shifting towards utilizing less invasive biopsy techniques, including fine needle aspiration (FNA) and needle core biopsies. If a patient has a suspected hematologic malignancy, a portion of the FNA sample is typically submitted for flow cytometry (FC) analysis, providing valua...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Wake LM,VandenBussche CJ,Ali SZ,Wagner-Johnston ND,Burns KH,Gocke CD,Vuica-Ross M,Borowitz MJ,Duffield AS

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) is a heterogeneous group of lymphoid neoplasms and accurate subclassification is an essential prerequisite for proper management of patients. This study was aimed at evaluating the utility of nuclear morphometry and textural features on cytology smears to classify the cases of NHL on aspirat...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

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

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：:In this study, we applied artificial neural network (ANN) for the diagnosis of lobular carcinoma in fine-needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) material. We selected a total of 64 cases of histology proven breast lesions consisting of 20 fibroadenomas, 28 infiltrating ductal carcinomas (IDC), and 16 infiltrating lobular ca...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Dey P,Logasundaram R,Joshi K

更新日期：2013-02-01 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：:The development of procedures for fully automated processing of liquid-based gynecologic samples has been the focus of considerable interest to the cytology laboratory. Liquid-based collection and processing technology has been shown to improve sample adequacy, resulting in an overall improvement in quality of sample ...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Rowe LR,Marshall CJ,Bentz JS

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the past 10 years, 7,495 cytological breast fine-needle aspirations (FNAs) were performed (4,756 FNAs of solid nodes and 2,739 of cystic nodes). Of these, 2,099 cases underwent surgery; 650 (31%) had histologically proven carcinoma. Sensitivity was 83.9%, specificity was 99.5%, the predictive value for negative res...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Fessia L,Botta G,Arisio R,Verga M,Aimone V

更新日期：1987-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most of the available data in the literature describe the cytomorphological features of exfoliated malignant epithelial cells in urine. There are no established diagnostic features that characterize the morphology of exfoliated malignant mesenchymal tumor in urine. Here we highlight the problems in the diagnosis of th...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Hemachandran M,Nada R,Rajwanshi A

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Among the various types of lymphoma, follicular lymphoma (FL) is known to have significant limitations in cytologic diagnosis by the fine-needle aspiration (FNA) method. The diagnostic accuracy (DA) for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL) by FNA was evaluated by review of 82 cases of histologically proved NHL after prior FNA...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Suh YK,Shabaik A,Meurer WT,Shin SS

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary carcinoma of the gallbladder is a rare neoplasm that is frequently difficult to diagnose preoperatively. The obstacles to diagnosis include vague symptoms and the relative inaccessibility of the gallbladder and cystic duct to biopsy. Cytological descriptions of gallbladder carcinoma are sparse and are largely ...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Dodd LG,Moffatt EJ,Hudson ER,Layfield LJ

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Merkel cell carcinoma (MCC) is a rare and highly aggressive primary neuroendocrine carcinoma of the skin with a high propensity for local, regional, and distant spread. Distant metastasis of MCC to the pancreas is uncommonly seen and may impose a diagnostic challenge cytologically. Here we report a case of MCC with pa...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Bernstein J,Adeniran AJ,Cai G,Theoharis CG,Ustun B,Beckman D,Aslanian HR,Harigopal M

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amyloidosis of the vitreous body is a rare disorder that causes progressive visual loss. In this report, a 36-yr-old female with familial amyloidosis is described in whom a progressive reduction of vision in both eyes over the last 4 yr was ascribed to vitreous opacities due to amyloid. A left pars plana vitrectomy wa...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Gupta RK,Wakefield J,Halliwell T,Foo K,Lallu S,Naran S,Fauck R

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adrenal cortical carcinoma (ACC) is a rare neoplasm that affects all age groups, with a bimodal peak of incidence, in young individuals in the first decade or two of life and in older subjects in the fifth to seventh decades. It may be clinically "functional" with Cushing's syndrome, virilization, or feminization, or ...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Laforga JB,Aranda FI

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) and Kras gene mutations are crucial for discriminating patients responsive to anti-EGFR drugs in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and colorectal cancer (CRC), respectively. The majority of NSCLCs come to clinical attention at an advanced stage when surgery is no longer recomme...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Bozzetti C,Negri FV,Azzoni C,Naldi N,Nizzoli R,Bortesi B,Zobbi V,Bottarelli L,Tiseo M,Silini EM,Ardizzoni A

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A correlated cytologic and histologic study of seven cases of embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma is presented. The diagnosis of rhabdomyosarcoma was established by light and electron microscopy and immunohistochemistry of the operative specimens. The cytologic appearance of the smears corresponded well with the histopathologi...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Seidal T,Walaas L,Kindblom LG,Angervall L

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Yolk sac tumors (YST) in extragonadal locations are rare. Cytologic diagnosis of YST on fine-needle aspiration (FNA) smears may be a challenge to the cytopathologist. Further neo-adjuvant therapy may be based on cytologic diagnosis making accuracy important. We studied FNA material from a hepatic mass in a pediatric p...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Gilbert KL,Bergman S,Dodd LG,Volmar KE,Creager AJ

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Endoscopic ultrasonography-guided fine-needle aspiration (EUS-FNA) is important for the differential diagnosis of solid pancreatic lesions. Sample adequacy is related to the number of needle passes, and European guidelines recommend three to four needle passes with a standard EUS-FNA needle. We aimed to eval...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Teodorescu C,Gheorghiu M,Zaharie T,Rusu I,Pojoga C,Bolboacă SD,Seicean R,Petrusel L,Seicean A

更新日期：2020-11-21 00:00:00