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：:The aim of this study is to compare micronucleus assay in buccal smear of breast carcinoma patients versus normal benign cases as control group. In this prospective study, we selected a total 32 patients of carcinoma of breast and 49 patients of benign breast lesions diagnosed in fine needle aspiration cytology (FNAC)...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Dey P,Samanta S,Susheilia S

更新日期：2012-08-01 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：:Intranuclear pseudoinclusions represent invaginations of the cytoplasm into the nucleus. The nuclear pseudoinclusions are generally easier to appreciate in cytological preparations than frozen sections or histopathology thus forming an important cytological feature. In the present article we have reviewed the morpholo...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Arora SK,Dey P

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Carcinoma of the lungs remains one of the primary causes of cancer mortality in the United States and represents a significant diagnostic challenge. Current diagnostic protocols depend substantially on cytology as an initial diagnostic modality. Pulmonary cytology can be diagnostically challenging with false positive ...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Witt BL,Wallander ML,Layfield LJ,Hirschowitz S

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

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：:Primary thyroid lymphoma is a very rare disease. Here, we present a case of primary diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) in a 48-year-old female involving thyroid gland. The patient had thyroid swelling for 15 years which rapidly increased during last 5 months. Fine needle aspiration cytology revealed monomorphic lar...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Mondal SK

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fine needle aspiration (FNA) has proven to be an effective tool in management of patients with thyroid nodules. However, the diagnosis of follicular patterned lesions can be challenging. The surgical and cytopathology computer database at a large referral medical center was searched for cases that had both cytologic a...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Wu S,DeMay RM,Papas P,Yan B,Reeves W

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biliary brush cytology is an important diagnostic tool in the evaluation of biliary strictures. Here, we evaluated 64 patients with biliary strictures who underwent endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography with bile duct brushings. We assessed the utility of combining routine Papanicolaou-stained cytologic evalu...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Hart J,Parab M,Mandich D,Cartun RW,Ligato S

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sclerosing stromal tumor (SST) of the ovary is a distinct subtype of sex cord-stromal tumor, which is derived from the ovarian stroma and, in turn, from the sex cords of the embryonic gonads. It is a benign tumor, predominantly, unilateral in nature and mostly involves the right side of the ovary. Histopathological fe...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Banik T,Gupta N,Dey P,Rajwanshi A,Dhaliwal LK

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Myoepithelial cells are an important component of salivary gland tumors and are partly responsible from the diverse histology of them. In this study, we focus on the myoepithelial cell differentiation by using cytological morphology in a various types of salivary gland tumors especially with regard to their contributi...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Avci A,Günhan O,Cakalağaoğlu F,Günal A,Celasun B

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Metaplastic cells with nebular cytoplasmic changes in the cervical smear are classified in the Dutch coding system for cervical screening as KOPAC O8 cells. Since these nebulated cells are already documented by Papanicolaou, we refer to these cells as Papanicolaou's nebular cells. We examined the simultaneous presence...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Roeters AM,Boon ME,van Haaften M,Vernooij F,Bontekoe TR,Heintz AP

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fine-needle aspiration (FNA) biopsy (FNAB) in the preoperative assessment of breast lesions has shown diagnostic limitations with false-positive and false-negative diagnoses. We investigated the diagnostic value of cytokeratin 5/6 (CK5/6) and p63 in a series of breast FNABs, diagnosed as proliferative breast lesions w...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Al-Maghraby H,Ghorab Z,Khalbuss W,Wong J,Silverman JF,Saad RS

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infection due to Coccidioides spp., a dimorphic fungal pathogen, usually presents as a chronic pulmonary disease, occasionally with pulmonary nodules. On cytology, large spherules filled with endospores are typically seen. We report an unusual case of coccidioidomycosis in a 39-year-old female from an area nonendemic ...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Schuetz AN,Pisapia D,Yan J,Hoda RS

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endoscopic ultrasound guided fine-needle aspiration biopsy is a reliable and accurate method for the diagnosis of submucosal lesions of the gastrointestinal tract. We report the cytopathologic findings of a case of duodenal high-grade neuroendocrine carcinoma in a 68-year-old woman who presented with melena and marked...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Tasso DM,Attam R,Aslan DL,Pambuccian SE

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chordoma is an uncommon tumor initially believed to be benign due to the rarity of its metastasis. Cytological, morphological, and immunohistochemical features of chordoma, relating to its origin from notochordal remnants, allows for its accurate diagnosis. A 75-year-old man with a known history of tuberculosis (TB) p...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Kanthan R,Senger JL

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Analyses of pancreatic juice by proteomics have identified many proteins that are overabundant in pancreatic cancer (PC) juice. The mechanism by which secretion of these proteins occur remains unclear. Pancreatic juice was collected from patients with three pancreatic diseases: PC, chronic pancreatitis (CP), and simpl...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Lv S,Gao J,Zhu F,Li Z,Gong Y,Xu G,Ma L

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuroglial heterotopias (NGH) are rare congenital head and neck lesions composed of differentiated neuroectodermal tissue and representing developmental heterotopias rather than true neoplasms. The case of a male neonate with respiratory distress and early feeding problems depicting a retropharyngeal space mass which ...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Hayashi T,Haba R,Kushida Y,Kadota K,Katsuki N,Bando K,Miyai Y,Shibuya S,Matsunaga T

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our previous study showed that the sensitivity of head and neck fine-needle aspiration (FNA) procedures was significantly better in the cytopathologist-performed group than in the noncytopathologist-performed group (96 versus 67%). Recently, cytopathologists have learned to use ultrasound machines to assist them in pe...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Wu M

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent therapeutic progresses in nonsmall cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and in colorectal cancer (CRC) are based on agents that specifically target the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR). To identify the patients most likely to benefit from such therapies, EGFR or KRAS gene mutation tests are mandatory, respectively, ...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Malapelle U,Bellevicine C,Zeppa P,Palombini L,Troncone G

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The evaluation of invasion in urothelial carcinomas of the urinary bladder cannot be determined on cytology and can be particularly challenging in biopsy cases with limited sampling. Recent studies of bladder resection specimens suggest that fascin overexpression may be a marker of aggressive urothelial carcinomas and...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： McKnight R,Cohen C,Siddiqui MT

更新日期：2011-09-01 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：:Fine-needle aspiration (FNA) of the thyroid for papillary carcinomas is highly sensitive. We sought to determine if the sensitivity of FNA for papillary carcinoma is correlated with the size of the tumor. We reviewed the results of thyroid resections for the last 12 years and correlated the findings with clinical and ...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Renshaw AA

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Malignant deciduoid mesothelioma (MDM) is a rare variant of epithelioid mesothelioma. This type of tumor might be associated with the asbestos exposure and carries a poor prognosis in general. MDM was first described by Nascimento et al. in 1994 in a peritoneal lesion of a young woman. And its diagnosis is frequently ...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Ustun H,Astarci HM,Sungu N,Ozdemir A,Ekinci C

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leydig cell tumors (LCT) are rare sex cord-stromal tumors that account for 2-3% of all testicular tumors. Approximately 10% of LCTs shows evidence of malignant behavior. We present a case of LCT with severe atypia diagnosed by fine-needle aspiration (FNA) in a 49-year-old man who presented with gynecomastia and right ...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Valeri RM,Kotakidou R,Michalakis K,Andreadis C,Kousi-Koliakou K,Destouni C

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine if fine needle aspiration (FNAB) of mycobacterial lymphadenopathy can differentiate infection with M. bovis BCG (BCG) from M. tuberculosis (TB) and whether HIV status affects discriminatory cytological features. A retrospective study of culture positive, fine needle aspiration biopsies of lymph nodes in c...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Schubert PT,Cotton MF,Wright CA

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a case of high-grade endometrial stromal sarcoma with cytological and immunocytochemical findings. Cytologically, major tumor cells showed round-to-short spindle shapes with round- to oval-shaped nuclei and moderately abundant delicate cytoplasm. Tumor cells with tapered shapes and eccentric nuclei were also...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Ohta Y,Suzuki T,Kojima T,Mikogami T,Omatsu M,Hamatani S,Shiokawa A,Kushima M,Ota H

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasmablastic lymphoma (PBL) is a rare lymphoma that is characterized by a diffuse proliferation of large neoplastic cells resembling B immunoblasts, but shows the immunophenotype of plasma cells. PBL is most commonly seen in the oral cavity of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-positive patients. Epstein-Barr virus (...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Hatanaka K,Nakamura N,Kishimoto K,Sugino K,Uekusa T

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) expression may be a prognostic factor in lung cancer. In previous studies, COX-2 expression has almost exclusively been evaluated with immunohistochemical methods performed on histology sections of tissue biopsies. However, in clinical practice, lung cancer is often diagnosed with cytological ...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Koch A,Gustafsson B,Fohlin H,Sörenson S

更新日期：2011-03-01 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：:Pulmonary cryptococcoma is a life threatening mycosis and is an unusual disease for immunocompetent individuals. Herein we report a case of large pulmonary cryptococcoma associated with cryptococcal meningitis, presenting radiologically as a lung mass in right upper lobe, in a previously healthy, HIV negative, immunoc...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Singh R,Joshi D,Gupta A,Gangane N

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tuberculosis of the urinary tract is usually secondary to tuberculosis of the kidney. Multinucleated giant cell histiocytes, often with peripheral nuclei (Langhans' cells), may be identified. Acid-fast bacilli on smear or positive urine cultures confirm the diagnosis. Similar findings can also be seen in patients trea...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Arora SK,Gupta N,Nijhawan R,Mandal AK

更新日期：2010-10-01 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：:Cervical neoplasia is attributed to a persistent Human Papilloma Virus infection. The Pap smear being the mainstay of cervical cancer screening in low-resource settings, we studied the nonclassical features which might indicate HPV infection. These included abortive koilocytes, mild dyskeratosis, parakeratosis, mild n...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Nijhawan R,Mittal N,Suri V,Rajwanshi A

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To evaluate cytological atypical changes in apparently healthy oral mucosa exposed to smoking, alcohol, hot meals, and peppers using the AgNOR and Papanicolaou methods. A total of 180 individuals were evaluated, of which 60 were smokers, 34 were alcohol users, 52 were habitual peppers and hot meal (exposed) consumers,...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Ahmed HG,Ebnoof SO,Hussein MO,Gbreel AY

更新日期：2010-07-01 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：: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：:Tuberculous and fungal infections are among the non-neoplastic lesions of the lung, in which fine-needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) has proven to be a useful technique in both immunocompromised and immunocompetent patients. The presence of polymicrobial infection in a renal transplant recipient is documented in the li...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Duggal R,Rajwanshi A,Gupta N,Lal A,Singhal M

更新日期：2010-04-01 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：:Epithelioid angiosarcomas are extremely rare tumors associated with poor prognosis and early metastases. Its epithelioid cytomorphology and limited vasoformation make it difficult to distinguish from more common malignancies, such as, carcinoma. This can be a potential diagnostic pitfall for the cytopathologist. In th...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Lin CF,DeFrias D,Lin X

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00