Fine-needle aspiration cytological findings in five cases of epithelial-myoepithelial carcinoma of salivary glands.

abstract：:Giant cell glioblastoma is a histological variant of glioblastoma that accounts for less than 1% of intracranial tumors and to 5% of glioblastoma. They occur at any age and are likely to affect the younger as well the older age group unlike the conventional glioblastoma multiforme (GBM). They are often located subcort...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Jaiswal S,Vij M,Jaiswal AK,Srivastava AK,Behari S,Pandey R

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Giant-cell tumor (GCT) of bone arising from phalanx of a finger is extremely rare. Rizzoli Orthopedic Institute in their study on 900 treated cases of GCT from 1947-1997 reported only 0.9% incidence of GCT in bones of the hand. There was no case of GCT of the phalanges in that series. We report here a case of GCT of b...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Khare P,Kishore B,Gupta RJ,Vanita,Dhal A

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The diagnosis of melanoma can be challenging, especially in metastatic lesions, due to the ability of melanoma cells to morphologically mimic carcinoma, sarcoma and even lymphoma cells. Moreover, melanomas can exhibit negative immunostaining for the melanoma markers HMB-45 and MART-1/Melan-A, often used in the diagnos...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Erdag G,Chowdhuri SR,Fetsch P,Erickson D,Hughes MS,Filie AC

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of adrenal cryptococcosis diagnosed by fine-needle aspiration biopsy cytology in a 58-yr-old man is presented. The organisms were easily seen with routine modified Wright stain (Diff-Quik) as variably sized yeasts, some with a brightly eosinophilic capsule. The diagnosis was confirmed with mucicarmine and silve...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Powers CN,Rupp GM,Maygarden SJ,Frable WJ

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Based on current literature and the best available research to date, the current FDA workload limits for automated image-assisted screening, including the ThinPrep Imaging System and the FocalPoint GS, of 100 slides/day (imaged only slides counted as 0.5) are extremely high and may be associated with significant reduc...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Elsheikh TM,Austin RM,Chhieng DF,Miller FS,Moriarty AT,Renshaw AA,American Society of Cytopathology.

更新日期：2013-02-01 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：:Over an 8-yr period at the Houston Veterans Hospital, 731 endoscopic gastric salvage cytologies were performed in 671 patients, with surgical biopsy also done in 660. Seventy-six patients subsequently had tissue biopsy-proven or resection-proven malignancies. Salvage cytology had a sensitivity of 91% and a specificity...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Green LK,Zachariah S,Graham DY

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Bethesda System for Reporting Thyroid Cytopathology (TBSRTC) offers a six-tiered diagnostic scheme for thyroid Fine Needle Aspiration (FNA): Benign, Atypia of Undetermined Significance/Follicular Lesion of Undetermined Significance (AUS/FLUS), suspicious for follicular neoplasm, suspicious for malignancy...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Padmanabhan V,Marshall CB,Akdas Barkan G,Ghofrani M,Laser A,Tolgay Ocal I,David Sturgis C,Souers R,Kurtycz DF

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The diagnosis of nodular sclerosing classical Hodgkin lymphoma (NSCHL) by fine-needle aspiration (FNA) biopsy has historically been a diagnostic challenge due to the usual paucicellularity of the specimen. This case report, and other previously published reports, suggests that there is another facet to the potentially...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Florentine BD,Cohen AN

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Involvement of the pancreas by metastatic sarcoma is rare, and can prove challenging to differentiate from sarcomatoid carcinomas which occur more commonly. The endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine-needle aspiration (EUS-FNA) technique has been successfully used for the diagnosis of pancreatic carcinomas whether primary ...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Varghese L,Ngae MY,Wilson AP,Crowder CD,Gulbahce HE,Pambuccian SE

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seventy-four fine needle aspiration biopsies (FNAB) of breast were selected from the 133 cases with surgical biopsy follow up, from a total of 1,154 consecutive breast FNAB received in a 6-month-period. These 74 cases were reviewed and scored using all relevant cytological criteria for proliferative breast lesions use...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Field A,Mak A

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary neuroendocrine carcinoma (carcinoid tumor) is among the rarest of middle-ear (ME) neoplasms, with only a rare case of metastatic disease having been reported. Fine-needle aspiration biopsy (FNAB) was performed in a 51-yr-old male with a two-decade history of multiple local recurrences from a right middle-ear n...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Menezes G,Wakely P Jr

更新日期：2001-09-01 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：:We report one case of metastatic synovial sarcoma (SS) to the parotid gland in a 93-year-old male. The patient had undergone upper left pulmonary lobectomy with mediastinal lymphadenectomy for SS of the lung 5 years before. The cytopathologic presentation and the immunocytochemical findings on the FNA sample were sugg...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Fulciniti F,Barizzi J,Martin V,Tarallo V,Ermanni S

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

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：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：:Microfilariae of various nematodes, including Loa loa, Dirofilariae, and Onchocerca volvulus, have been identified in the central nervous system (CNS). The CNS, however, is a rare site for the isolation of microfilariae of Wuchereria bancrofti. To the best of our knowledge, the presence of microfilariae of W. bancroft...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Aron M,Kapila K,Sarkar C,Verma K

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since the 1980s core needle biopsy (CNB) has gained remarkable popularity and in many institutions it has replaced fine-needle aspiration biopsy (FNAB). However, similar to FNAB, limitation remains in the ability of this procedure to reliably diagnose a small, but prognostically significant, number of breast lesions. ...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Masood S,Loya A,Khalbuss W

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigated the role of Papanicolaou (Pap) smears in determining the presence of bacterial vaginosis (BV). Pap results, vaginal Gram stains, signs, symptoms, and wet mounts were evaluated. Vaginal smears for Gram stain and routine Pap smears were collected from 420 consecutive patients. Ninety-three percen...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Prey M

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytological evaluation of cervical smears has been carried out in 4,338 women attending the Gynecology and Obstetrics Department and Family Planning Clinic of Queen Mary's Hospital, Lucknow, India, since April 1971. The incidence of cervical dysplasia was found to be 4.6% (205 out of 4,338) in the series, while malign...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Engineer AD,Misra JS

更新日期：1987-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Preoperative chemotherapy for locally advanced breast carcinoma (stage IIIA,B) is increasingly utilized demonstrating a 70 to 95% objective response and 15 to 35% complete response. A 70-yr-old woman presented with a 9 cm left upper outer quadrant breast mass associated with overlying skin redness and a 2.5 cm left ax...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Costa MJ,Stewart G,Perez EA,Goodnight JE

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of fine-needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) in the diagnosis of benign skin lesions has been restricted primarily to the evaluation of bacteriologic and morphologic indices in leprosy. This study was undertaken to evaluate the efficacy of FNAC in the diagnosis and classification of lepromatous lesions. Aspirate...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Rao IS,Singh MK,Gupta SD,Pandhi RK,Kapila K

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polyomavirus BK (BKV) has ebeen identified as the main cause of polyomavirus-associated nephropathy, a major cause of renal allograft failure. Although BKV-associated nephropathy develops in only 2% to 5% of renal transplant recipients, its prognosis when present is very poor, with irreversible graft failure developin...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Cimbaluk D,Pitelka L,Kluskens L,Gattuso P

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The dark (hyperchromatic) cerebriform nucleus was recently described as a frequent finding in histopathology sections of papillary carcinoma of the thyroid. In the present study, we tried to determine the frequency of dark cerebriform nuclei in the fine-needle aspiration (FNA) smears of papillary thyroid carcinomas an...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Mallik MK,Das DK,Mallik AA,Madda JP,Mirza K,Al-Bishi KK,George SS,Junaid TA

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytodiagnosis of pulmonary hamartomas (PHs) by transthoracic fine-needle aspiration (FNA), successful in 11 of a series of 14 cases, has been found to rely less on the presence of mature cartilage than on the recognition of fibromyxoid fragments. These fragments, wispy yet discrete, consisting of variable numbers of f...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Dunbar F,Leiman G

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The case of a 22-yr-old male who after a brief febrile episode developed autoimmune hemolytic anemia and right pulmonary infiltrate with pleural effusion is presented. Cytologic examination of the pleural fluid revealed lymphocytosis and hemophagocytosis, primarily of red blood cells (RBCs) by mature histiocytes. Ther...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Zaharopoulos P

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An 86-year-old Caucasian female presented with two weeks history of discomfort discharging urine, occasional hematuria, and suprapubic pain. The patient had a history of left salpingo-oophorectomy for an ovarian tumor, performed four years earlier. Ultrasound showed a solid mass surrounding the orifice of the left ure...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Vodovnik A

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Knowledge of the status of the pelvic lymph nodes is important for accurate staging and adequate treatment of patients with genitourinary tract cancer (bladder and prostatic carcinoma, testicular tumors, and uterine carcinoma). A total of 228 consecutive patients underwent preoperative evaluation of the lymph node sta...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Cochand-Priollet B,Roger B,Boccon-Gibod I,Ferrand J,Faure B,Blery M

更新日期：1987-06-01 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：:Although fine-needle aspiration cytology is a routine procedure for the diagnosis of breast carcinoma, cytologic specimens have rarely been used for evaluation of hormone receptor status and HER2/neu overexpression. In order to compare the biological markers on cytology and on histology, routinely fixed smears of 110 ...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Moriki T,Takahashi T,Ueta S,Mitani M,Ichien M

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00