Joint fluid cytology in Reiter's disease.

Joint fluid cytology in Reiter's disease.

The diagnostic value of the finding of cytophagocytic macrophages (CPM) in the joint fluid of patients with Reiter's disease has been re-examined. CPM were found in 46% of Reiter's disease fluids and in 45% of other inflammatory knee joint fluids. Higher CPM scores, on a 4-point grading, were commoner in Reiter's disease but the difference was not statistically significant. Further, although th...

Cerebrospinal Fluid Cytology in Schizophrenia

Psychiatry, Helsinki City Hospital, deserves special commendation for enabling the collection of the patient samples. The Finnish Institute of Occupational Health is thanked for placing the facilities of the Institute at my disposal. whose innovative and unprejudiced attitude has inspired me in the fields of psychiatric and pathological research. Professor Rimón aroused my interest in biologica...

Cerebrospinal fluid cytology

Refrigeration preserves synovial fluid cytology.

Sir: We recently published an algorithm based on combinations of synovial fluid (SF) cell number thresholds and types which should considerably extend the diagnostic use of SF cytology in non-septic/crystal arthritis.' Key branch points depend on accurate values for total and differential nucleated leucocyte counts (white cell count (WCC)), ragocytes, and Reiter's cells (cyto-phagocytic mononuc...

CASE REPORT Microfilaria in hydrocele fluid cytology

Filariasis, a parasitic infection endemic in parts of India, Myanmar, islands of the South Pacific, West and East Africa and Saudi Arabia can be diagnosed from various types of cytopathological specimens. This case documents the detection of filarial infection from hydrocele fluid cytology in a 30-year-old Myanmar migrant worker in Malaysia.