Pleomorphic adenoma with predominant plasmocytoid myoepithelial cells: a diagnostic pitfall in aspiration cytology. Case report and review of the literature.

abstract：:Multiple myeloma (MM) with central nervous system (CNS) infiltration is uncommon and the diagnosis is more complicated than that of MM. Here we report two cases of CNS MM that was diagnosed by cerebrospinal fluid cytology examination. Cerebrospinal fluid cytology examination can help to detect malignant cells and immu...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Ren H,Zou Y,Zhao Y,Li J,Han X,He J,Guan H

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objectives of the study were to evaluate 1) the diagnostic sensitivity and specificity of p16(INK4a) as a marker for high-grade cervical lesions, 2) the results of a real-time polymerase chain reaction detecting high-risk human papillomavirus, and 3) the interobserver variability of the p16(INK4a) interpretation.A...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Schledermann D,Andersen BT,Bisgaard K,Dohse M,Ejersbo D,Hoelund B,Horal P,Lindh M,Ryd W

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Warthin-like papillary thyroid carcinoma (WLPTC) is a rare morphological variant of papillary thyroid carcinoma which mimics various benign and malignant lesions on thyroid aspiration cytology. As correct cytological diagnosis is the cornerstone for appropriate patient management, awareness of the salient cytomorpholo...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Vallonthaiel AG,Agarwal S,Jain D,Yadav R,Damle NA

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sinus histiocytosis with massive lymphadenopathy (SHML) is a rare entity characterized by the proliferation of cells belonging to the macrophage-histiocyte family, but whose exact origin is unknown. A case of SHML occurring in a 62-yr-old female is described in which the diagnosis is initially suggested by fine-needle...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Alvarez Alegret R,Martinez Tello A,Ramirez T,Gállego P,Martinez D,García Julían G

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two hundred-seventy-five azoospermic males were subjected to fine-needle aspiration (FNA) cytologic study of testis with the aim of determining the cause of azoospermia; 534 aspirates from these patients were classified as follows: normal spermatogenesis (162), hypospermatogenesis (mild, moderate, or severe, 226), abs...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Verma AK,Basu D,Jayaram G

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Despite Aptima assay as the latest US Food Drug Administration (FDA)-approved high-risk human papillomavirus (hrHPV) test has been implemented as an adjunct in cervical cancer screening for years, histological follow-up data remain limited with respect to its performance in women with ASC-US Pap tests and po...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Wang T,Pradhan D,Zhang H,Matsko J,Zhao C

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors report a prospective study on 88 samples of superficial lesions (lymph nodes, skin nodules, and breast tumors), performed by fine-needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) in 74 patients, allowing (i) morphologic analysis combined with immunophenotyping by flow cytometry (FCM) and (ii) a cytogenetic study in 33 ca...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Mathiot C,Decaudin D,Klijanienko J,Couturier J,Salomon A,Dumont J,Vielh P

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epithelioid hemangioendothelioma is a rare vascular neoplasm of low-grade malignancy. We observed a case of epithelioid hemangioendothelioma arising in a cervical lymph node. Fine needle aspiration cytology showed several characteristic findings of epithelioid hemangioendothelioma, that is, nuclear inclusion bodies, n...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Kurisu Y,Tsuji M,Kuwabara H,Shibayama Y

更新日期：2011-02-01 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：:A 30-year-old female presented with a three-month history of a multilocular cystic lesion over the lumbosacral spine. Fine-needle aspiration biopsy (FNA) of the lesion was performed at an outside institution, and a cytologic diagnosis, suspicious for chordoma, was rendered. The patient presented for surgical consultat...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Alperstein S,Dilcher T,Viswanathan K,Rao RA,Siddiqui MT,Giorgadze T

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present clinicopathological and cytological findings of a well-defined breast mass in a patient with history of primary renal carcinoid tumor. Fine-needle aspiration (FNA) cytology showed monotonous tumor cells with plasmacytoid appearance arranged singly and in small clusters. Occasional tumor cells were arranged ...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Hasteh F,Pu R,Michael CW

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endometrium was obtained by brushing 656 hysterectomy specimens with a MedScand cytobrush (Hollywood, FL) in order to evaluate linking an easy-to-use liquid fixative with brush-sampling of the endometrium, and to determine the fixative's operating characteristics when applied to brush-sampling the endometrium. Liquid-...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Maksem JA,Knesel E

更新日期：1996-06-01 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：:Cytologic preparations were made from 53 biopsies of osseous and related lesions submitted for intraoperative diagnosis. Smears made by scraping the surface of the lesion and spreading the material obtained on a glass slide were most commonly used. These preparations were found to be valuable adjuncts to frozen sectio...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Wilkerson JA,Crowell WT

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Malignancies from many primary sites may metastasize to supraclavicular lymph nodes (SCLN). We reviewed 100 fine-needle aspirations (FNAs) of SCLNs. There were three major types of malignancy detected by this method: adenocarcinoma (n = 40), squamous cell carcinoma (n = 14), and other malignancies (n = 29). Adenocarci...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Carson HJ,Candel AG,Gattuso P,Castelli MJ

更新日期：1996-05-01 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：:Cytologic detection of lung cancer is accepted, accurate, and time-honored. Typically, cytologic workup of a radiologic abnormality proceeds sequentially from sputum to bronchoalveolar cytology, and, if necessary, to fine-needle aspiration biopsy (FNA). Initial use of FNA in lung cancer diagnosis is controversial, but...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Blumenfeld W,Singer M,Glanz S,Hon M

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This case involved a 69-year-old female who presented with irritative urinary voiding. Imaging studies showed an 18-cm uterine mass centering on the cervix and extending into the bladder. The Pap test slide demonstrated necrotic background and degenerative changes in single and grouped atypical "small round blue cells...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Yang G,Deisch J,Tavares M,Haixia Q,Cobb C,Raza AS

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We retrospectively reviewed 74 fine-needle aspiration (FNA) cases of presumptive non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL). All the cases had cytology and core-needle biopsy and 53 cases had concurrent flow cytometric analysis. FNA (cytology and flow cytometry) and core-needle biopsy were evaluated independently. FNA was diagnostic ...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Gong JZ,Snyder MJ,Lagoo AS,Vollmer RT,Dash RR,Madden JF,Buckley PJ,Jones CK

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Given the prevalence of human papilloma virus (HPV) infection, an attempt was made to determine whether certain factors such as keratinization and/or squamous atypia are associated with its development. Review of our gynecologic cytology files from 1989 yielded 1,615 specimens showing parakeratosis and/or hyperkeratos...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Hudock J,Hanau CA,Hawthorne C,Jordan AG

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The identification of two cell populations displaying different cytologic characteristics in the same fine needle aspiration (FNA), one with an epithelioid appearance and the other spindle cell morphology, is an extremely rare phenomenon and potentially represents a source of diagnostic confusion. Depending on the lin...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Tran TAN,Rosales A,Arnoletti JP,Ouyang J,Hasan MK

更新日期：2021-02-01 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：:We report a case of sclerosing epithelioid fibrosarcoma focusing on its cytological features in pleural effusion. A 32-year-old man had noticed a tumor in his left buttock 5 years earlier but had not sought treatment because the tumor had been painless. He visited our hospital because the tumor had gradually increased...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Tsuchido K,Yamada M,Satou T,Otsuki Y,Shimizu S,Kobayashi H

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies have shown that argyrophilic nucleolar organizer region-associated proteins (AgNORs) may correlate with DNA ploidy and/or proliferative activity in neoplastic and non-neoplastic conditions. However, studies have estimated only the mean AgNOR counts. Here we used two AgNOR counts, one of which may correlate wit...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Mourad WA,Katz RL,Sembera D,Atkinson EN,el-Naggar AK

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The diagnostic significance of grooved nuclei in the cytology of extrathyroid lesions is not well-described in the literature. Isolated cases of metastatic adult granulosa cell tumor, reactive mesothelial hyperplasia, Langerhans' cell histiocytosis, recurrent renal cell carcinoma, and round cell liposarcoma were revie...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Ng WK,Collins RJ

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:True malignant mixed tumor (carcinosarcoma) of salivary gland is a very rare neoplasm. Only one brief account of the Fine-Needle Aspiration Biopsy (FNAB) cytologic findings of this tumor was found in the literature. The authors report a case of malignant mixed tumor (chondrosarcoma and epidermoid carcinoma) arising fr...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Granger JK,Houn HY

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The diagnosis on fine needle aspiration of salivary gland tumors with a myoepithelial component is challenging because myoepithelial cells can have a wide cytomorphologic spectrum. The authors report a case of a pleomorphic adenoma of the parotid gland that expands the spectrum of appearances that myoepithelial cells ...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Taweevisit M,Thorner PS

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Between January 1, 1992 and December 31, 1997, a cytopathological diagnosis of follicular variant of papillary thyroid carcinoma (FVPC) was made on a series of 16 out of 18 patients with palpable nodules who underwent fine-needle aspiration biopsy (FNAB) in our Department. The results of aspiration biopsy were followe...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Fulciniti F,Benincasa G,Vetrani A,Palombini L

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genital tract tuberculosis is usually secondary to an extragenital tubercular focus. Cervical tuberculosis, however, is rare accounting for up to 3% of all genital tract diseases. The diagnosis of tuberculosis is usually established on multiple cervical biopsies followed by bacteriological confirmation. There are only...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Gupta R,Dey P,Jain V,Gupta N

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Synovial sarcomas (SS) of the head and neck region are extremely rare and arise in only 5% of cases. We present a case of secondary SS of the thyroid originally diagnosed as medullary carcinoma on fine needle aspiration (FNA). A 41-year-old man presented with several weeks of dysphonia and a left thyroid mass. FNA of ...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Murro D,Slade JM,Syed S,Gattuso P

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00