Cytopathology: Diagnostic Updates and Advances in Ancillary Testing

Updates and advances in liposuction.

Liposuction has evolved tremendously over the past three decades. Since its introduction by Illouz it has progressed into one of the most popular procedures in plastic surgery. The objective of this CME is to provide a foundation of knowledge with respect to anatomy, physiology, preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative management of patients scheduled to undergo liposuction. A review of ...

Recent advances in salivary gland cytopathology

Salivary gland tumors (SGTs) are noted for their exceptional heterogeneity and diversity and for the common morphological overlap taking place between the different entities. Fine needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) is a valuable tool in the primary diagnosis and management of SGTs. These lesions are generally not subjected to incisional or core needle biopsy because of possible risk of causing a...

Diagnostic Pediatric Cytopathology and Histopathologic Correlation.

Ancillary Testing in Lung Cancer Diagnosis

The pathologic diagnosis of lung cancer historically has relied primarily on morphologic features of tumors in histologic sections. With the emergence of new targeted therapies, the pathologist is called upon increasingly to provide not only accurate typing of lung cancers, but also to provide prognostic and predictive information, based on a growing number of ancillary tests, that may have sig...

AACE/ACE disease state commentary: molecular diagnostic testing of thyroid nodules with indeterminate cytopathology.

• Approximately 10 to 25% of fine-needle aspiration (FNA) biopsies yield an indeterminate result often labeled as atypia of undetermined significance or follicular lesion of undetermined significance (AUS/FLUS) or follicular neoplasm/suspicious for follicular neoplasm (FN/SFN). The risk of malignancy typically varies between 15 and 30% for these categories. • Although many markers are in develo...