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：:Sclerosing polycystic adenosis (SPA) is a recently described, rare lesion of the salivary gland analogous to fibrocystic disease of the breast. Recognition of this benign entity is important since the differential diagnosis includes other more common benign and malignant salivary gland neoplasms, particularly mucoepid...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Etit D,Pilch BZ,Osgood R,Faquin WC

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Collagenous spherulosis of the breast is a rare incidental finding frequently associated with other benign lesions of the breast. The estimated incidence of this innocuous condition is only about 0.2% in cytological material. It is of utmost importance to differentiate collagenous spherulosis from its malignant mimics...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Gangane N,Joshi D,Anshu.,Shivkumar VB

更新日期：2007-06-01 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：:Recent microarray studies have shown that the expression of hepatocyte nuclear factor-1beta (HNF-1beta) was significantly up-regulated in clear cell carcinoma (CCC) of the ovary. HNF-1beta may be a useful marker for CCC in peritoneal fluid cytology. We designed an experimental study using three CCC cell lines to evalu...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Kato N,Toukairin M,Asanuma I,Motoyama T

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors present a case of cardiac angiosarcoma diagnosed by fine-needle aspiration (FNA) in a 33-year-old male. A percutaneous right atrial mass biopsy was performed via a right internal jugular venous approach and under echocardiographic guidance. FNA showed pleomorphic spindle-shaped cells present singly and in ...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Bhalla R,Nassar A

更新日期：2007-03-01 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：: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：:Distinguishing mucinous from nonmucinous cystic lesions of the pancreas often constitutes a diagnostic dilemma. The clinical management differs between such lesions; therefore it is important to make an accurate preoperative diagnosis. Various centers have reported conflicting results regarding their ability to detect...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Moparty B,Logroño R,Nealon WH,Waxman I,Raju GS,Pasricha PJ,Bhutani MS

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A prospective study was conducted on 100 patients divided in two groups who underwent fiberoptic bronchoscopy (FOB). Group I consisted of 60 cases of suspected lung malignancy on clinical and radiological examination, while group II consisted of 40 cases of nonneoplastic lung diseases. Pre-FOB sputum, bronchoalveolar ...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Garg S,Handa U,Mohan H,Janmeja AK

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ciliated hepatic foregut cyst (CHFC) is a rare, benign, solitary cyst occurring most often in the left lobe of the liver. CHFCs are typically found incidentally during radiologic imaging, surgical exploration, or autopsy. Only six cases of CHFC diagnosed by fine needle aspiration have been reported in the literature. ...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： De J,Rossman L,Kott MM,Deavers MT

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study highlights the role of fine-needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) and Ziehl Neelsen (ZN) staining in diagnosis of cutaneous tuberculosis and correlates the cytomorphological features with histopathology.FNAC and biopsy was performed on 30 cases of cutaneous tuberculosis and along with the routine stains,...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Kathuria P,Agarwal K,Koranne RV

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

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：:This study is aimed to investigate the role of reflex high-risk human papilloma virus (HPV) DNA testing as an alternative triage method to colposcopy for women with atypical squamous cells cannot exclude high-grade squamous intraepithelial lesion (ASC-H) on Papanicolaou (Pap) tests. Reflex HPV DNA testing using Hybrid...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Wu HH,Allen SL,Kirkpatrick JL,Elsheikh TM

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Breast disease is of great concern to patients and health care providers alike. Malignancies of the breast and their various presentations can pose tremendous challenges with respect to early diagnosis and effective treatment. Carcinoma of the breast may appear in several forms and produce one or more ectopic substanc...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Siddiqui NH,Cabay RJ,Salem F

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The US Preventive Services Task Force (USPTF) has recommended that routine vaginal Pap (V-Pap) screening is unnecessary for women status-post (S/P) total hysterectomy (T-Hyst) for benign disease (Guide to Clinical Preventive Services. 2nd ed. Baltimore, MD: Williams & Wilkins; 1996. p 105-118). However, many US women ...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Farghaly H,Bourgeois D,Houser PM,Padmanabhan V,Lage JM,Hoda RS

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nephroblastoma (Wilms' tumor) is the most common childhood renal tumor and usually presents with a histology and cytology consisting of blastemal, epithelial, and stromal cells. Effusions are not uncommon and may suggest an unfavorable prognosis when containing anaplastic tumor cells. In the present case, we report th...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Schinstine M,Abati A,Tsokos M,Fox E,Filie AC

更新日期：2006-09-01 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：:Adenoid cystic carcinoma (ACC) is a malignant neoplasm most commonly originating in salivary glands of the head and neck area. When ACC presents outside of these locations, the diagnosis may become more challenging. We describe three cases of ACC presenting in extra-salivary gland sites. Two cases were metastatic; in ...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Florentine BD,Fink T,Avidan S,Braslavsky D,Raza A,Cobb CJ

更新日期：2006-07-01 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：:Fine-needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) is an acknowledged method for diagnosing prostate cancer. False-positive results are uncommon, but concerns have been raised that prostatic intraepithelial neoplasia (PIN) could be misinterpreted as carcinoma. Therefore, we attempted to describe cytological features of PIN. Cells...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Valdman A,Jonmarker S,Ekman P,Egevad L

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anaplastic large-cell lymphoma (ALCL) is a rare T-cell lymphoma typically seen in children and young adults. It has been described in numerous sites; however, the breast is one of the least common locations. We herein report a case of ALCL arising in the breast of a 36-yr-old pregnant woman. To our knowledge this is t...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Iyengar P,Reid-Nicholson M,Moreira AL

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite various reports of BK viral (BKV) DNA sequences or proteins in tumors of the urogenital tract, there has been no study statistically linking infection by this polyoma virus (PV) to tumor development. All PV are potential transforming viruses, the large T-antigen of which interacts with tumor suppressor protein...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Weinreb DB,Desman GT,Amolat-Apiado MJ,Burstein DE,Godbold JH Jr,Johnson EM

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell blocks (CBs) are often prepared with fine-needle aspirates (FNAs) from multiple organs as an adjunct to smears in the diagnosis of aspirated lesions. However, the literature contains few reports on their utility with regard to specific organ sites. At our institution, CBs are made routinely on FNAs when there is ...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Sanchez N,Selvaggi SM

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine the accuracy of fine-needle aspiration (FNA) in the diagnostic assessment of lymphadenopathies, a retrospective study was conducted on 627 cases of FNA of the lymph nodes performed at Department of Pathology, UNIFESP (Federal University of São Paulo), between 1997 and 2001. Cytology results were compared ...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Martins MR,Santos Gda C

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A series of 85 fine-needle aspiration (FNA) biopsies from orbital space occupying lesions of 82 patients are reviewed. A total of 32 benign lesions and 49 malignant lesions were conclusively diagnosed. In two cases the aspirates were insufficient for diagnosis. Of two cases, which were cytologically suspicious for lym...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Tani E,Seregard S,Rupp G,Söderlund V,Skoog L

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Solid pseudopapillary tumors are rare pancreatic neoplasms of uncertain pathogenesis that rarely metastasize and usually occur in young women. We describe the clinical, imaging, and cytopathological features of solid pseudopapillary tumor of the pancreas. We reviewed the clinical presentation, imaging, morphologic/imm...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Bhanot P,Nealon WH,Walser EM,Bhutani MS,Tang WW,Logroño R

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine-needle aspiration biopsy (EUS-FNAB) has become a widely used method of pre-operatively evaluating pancreatic masses. This technique introduces gastrointestinal contamination into the specimen, which poses a diagnostic pitfall. The cytomorphologic features of these contaminants have no...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Nagle JA,Wilbur DC,Pitman MB

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bone surface is an exceptional location for chondromyxoid fibroma. Only 14 cases of juxtacortical chondromyxoid fibroma have been reported to date and, to our knowledge, none of these cases are documented with imprint cytology. We report a case of periosteal chondromyxoid fibroma located in the distal tibial metaphysi...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Estrada-Villaseñor E,Cedillo ED,Martínez GR,Chávez RD

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Metastatic dissemination is the primary cause of death in ovarian cancer (OvCa) patients, and dissemination to pleural and peritoneal effusions is a common clinical event. Effusion samples were collected from 15 OvCa patients. Twenty-six samples were collected prospectively, two were archival, and eight were taken fro...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Kohn EC,Travers LA,Kassis J,Broome U,Klominek J

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pancreatoblastoma is a rare tumor and has been reported only four times in the cytologic literature, three times in fine-needle aspiration (FNA) biopsy and once in an imprint of resected tumor. We are reporting the fourth case of FNA cytology with immunohistochemical and electron microscopic studies. The patient is a ...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Zhu LC,Sidhu GS,Cassai ND,Yang GC

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Residual material from liquid-based pap (LBP) test has been used for molecular testing of Human Papilloma Virus (HR HPV) DNA. LBP test specimens (1,025) were evaluated to determine how often residual material was insufficient to perform microbiological testing. The specimens were tested for Chlamydia trachomatis and N...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Hawthorne CM,Farber PJ,Bibbo M

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Malignant mesothelioma is a rare neoplasm with poor prognosis. The pleural form is defined as a malignant tumor of mesothelial cells with a diffuse growth pattern involving the visceral and parietal surfaces of the pleura. To our knowledge, there have only been two reported cases in the literature where fine-needle as...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Tafazzoli A,Raza A,Martin SE

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The largest series, to date, of fine-needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) findings in clear-cell sarcoma of the kidney (CCSK) is presented. All fine-needle aspirates of pediatric renal masses over a 17-yr period were reviewed. Eight out of 119 aspirates from late-stage childhood renal tumors (6.72%) were found to be CCSK...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Iyer VK,Agarwala S,Verma K

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CD138 (Syndecan-1) is a transmembrane heparan sulfate proteoglycan present on the surface of plasma cells and epithelial cells. CD138 is also expressed in some hematopoietic neoplasms and has recently been observed in carcinomas. We characterized CD138 expression in cell-block preparations of fluids/effusions, focusin...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Saqi A,Yun SS,Yu GH,Alexis D,Taub RN,Powell CA,Borczuk AC

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A chest wall abscess is a very rare presentation of extranodal Hodgkin's lymphoma (HL); only one case has been reported to date. Here, we describe a case of a 38-yr-old man with HL whose initial presentation was a chest wall abscess. The diagnosis of HL was suggested by cytological examination of the purulent discharg...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Khalbuss WE,Grigorian S,Mignone J,D'Agostino HJ

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nodular pseudoangiomatous stromal hyperplasia (PASH) of the breast is rare and often indistinguishable from fibroadenoma, clinically and on aspiration biopsy smears. We report our observations in 10 patients with PASH, evaluated by fine-needle aspiration (FNA) biopsy and core biopsy. We retrospectively reviewed the cl...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Levine PH,Nimeh D,Guth AA,Cangiarella JF

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lobular carcinoma in situ (LCIS) of the breast is a recognized marker for increased risk of invasive carcinoma and has well-established histologic criteria. However, its detection and diagnosis on FNA of breast has not been well defined. Cytology slides (all ThinPrep) of 11 cases with biopsy-proven LCIS at Beth Israel...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Ayata G,Wang HH

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Malignant renal neoplasms are common solid tumors in pediatric oncology practice. These include the common Wilms' tumor/nephroblastoma and the uncommon neoplasms such as clear-cell sarcoma of the kidney (CCSK), rhabdoid tumor, renal-cell carcinoma, and others. The aim of this study was to describe in detail the cytopa...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Radhika S,Bakshi A,Rajwanshi A,Nijhawan R,Das A,Kakkar N,Joshi K,Marwaha RK,Rao KL

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 2001 Bethesda System diagnostic category of atypical squamous cells cannot exclude a high grade squamous intraepithelial lesion (ASC-H) was developed and implemented after many studies that proved its clinical relevance. In this study, we describe the practice experience of a hospital-based reference laboratory wi...

journal_title：Diagnostic cytopathology

authors： Duncan LD,Jacob SV

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00