BACKGROUND Animals with chronic cough can have normal bronchoalveolar lavage fluid cytology when small airway disease is absent. Cytology of a tracheobronchial brushing can detect inflammation in larger airways; however, evaluation of this technique has been limited in veterinary medicine. OBJECTIVE To compare airway brush cytology to bronchoalveolar lavage fluid analysis in dogs and cats wit...

PURPOSE To compare a new Biopore membrane impression cytology method with the routinely used exfoliative cytology in patients with a melanocytic lesion of the conjunctiva. METHODS Sixty-eight consecutive patients with a conjunctival melanocytic lesion underwent Biopore membrane impression cytology as well as exfoliative cytology. A histologic sample was also available in 26 cases. All Biopore...

OBJECTIVE High-risk HPV (hrHPV) and cytology co-testing is utilized for primary cervical cancer screening and for enhanced follow-up of women who are hrHPV-positive, cytology negative. However, data are lacking on the utility of this method to detect pre-cancer or cancer in community-based clinical practice. This study describes cytology and hrHPV results preceding high-grade cervical intraepit...

BACKGROUND This study was undertaken to evaluate the long-term prognostic significance of conventional peritoneal cytology in patients with advanced colorectal carcinoma after curative resection. METHODS A review was performed of 189 patients who underwent curative resection for pT3/T4 carcinoma of the colon and upper/middle rectum between March 1987 and December 1991. Patient outcomes were r...

UNLABELLED Self-sampling could increase cervical cancer screening uptake. While methods have been identified for human papillomavirus (HPV) testing, to date, self-sampling has not provided adequate specimens for cytology. We piloted the validity and reliability of using a self-lavaging device for cervical cytology and HPV testing. We enrolled 198 women in New York City in 2008-2009 from three a...

A four-year prospective study of endoscopic cytology and histology was carried out on 64 patients suspected of having a malignant lesion at the junction of the lower oesophagus and cardia. The final diagnosis was malignant in 18 and benign in 46 cases. Biopsy touch smear cytology was the most accurate technique with a sensitivity of 100% compared with 820% for brush cytology and 89% for biopsy ...

An adenoid cystic carcinoma (ACC) of the lung is a malignant tumor that arises in ducts of bronchial submucosal mucous glands. ACC of the lower respiratory tract constitutes ≤0.2% of all primary pulmonary tumors. A diagnosis of ACC on cytology is uncommon even on exfoliative cytology, as well as fine needle aspiration cytology. To the best of our knowledge, this is the second case of bronchial ...

Urine cytology often is used to identify BK virus in kidney transplant recipients in the cytology laboratory. To assess the usefulness of the shell vial cell culture assay to identify BK virus, urine samples from 42 kidney transplant recipients were tested by the urine cytology and shell vial cell culture assays. The shell vial cell culture assay is just as sensitive and specific as urine cytol...

I this issue, Arbyn et al (see p. 167) update the evidence about the accuracy of liquid-based cytology compared with conventional cytology, and the results are not encouraging.1 In summary, best evidence suggests that liquid-based cytology does not lead to more disease detection and appears to increase false-positive testing, sobering news given that over 80% of U.S. obstetrician–gynecologists ...