Recent developments of grid services for secured distributed data management open new perspectives for disease surveillance. In this paper, we report on our initiative to develop a surveillance network for breast cancer in the Auvergne region. The network gathers cytopathology laboratories, structures in charge of cancer screening and institutes in charge of cancer epidemiology. Data stored in ...

Endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine needle aspiration is a multistep procedure that involves proper clinical indication, correct selection of needles, adapting evidence-based techniques such as the fanning maneuver and not routinely using suction or the stylet for tissue sampling, and establishing reliable cytopathology support. Integrating cytopathology in the training curriculum and developing ...

Background:Breast cancer is most common cancers in reproductive women and also the leading cause of deaths worldwide. First line invasive investigation breast lump Fine needle aspiration cytology (FNC) to categorized lesion as benign or malignant. Recently, an expert panel published [International Academy Cytology](IAC) Yokohama System for reporting classification cytopathology. The aim present...

The cytopathology for rat neuroblastoma cells (B-103) and the pathogenicity for B6C3F1 mice of four species of Naegleria have been compared. Both live amoebae and cell-free extracts of N. australiensis, N. fowleri, N. gruberi, and N. lovaniensis added to 51Cr-labeled B-103 cells caused release of radiolabel. All four species of Naegleria exhibited surface extensions termed food cups. Only N. fo...

Twenty-nine canine cutaneous mast cell tumors (MCTs) were morphometrically analyzed with regard to mean nuclear area (MNA) using cytopathology smears. The results showed a correlation between MNA and survival. When graded into 2 morphometrically different groups, there were statistically significant differences among high- and low-grade MCTs, regarding both Romanowsky-type stain and hematoxylin...

Salivary gland masses are often encountered in the everyday practice of cytopathology. It is commonly known that cytologic interpretation these lesions can pose diagnostic problems due to overlapping cytomorphologic features. Fine needle aspiration (FNA) salivary shows good excellent sensitivity and specificity differentiating a neoplastic from non-neoplastic process diagnosing common tumors su...

Lewis X antigen in bladder cancer patients can be found in urine. In order to determine the presence of Lewis X antigen in exfoliated cells from voided urine, also cytopathologic examination and bladder ultrasound were detected in bladder cancer patients. Totally 42 patients were included in the study. Voided urine samples were obtained for immunocytology of Lewis X and cytopathology. Bladder u...

Objectives: To compare the traditional teaching with algorithm or flowchart-based method in cytology and to assess performance of newly joined residents cytopathology after training them algorithm-based approach. Materials & Methods: The study included 20 who were divided into two groups I.e., group A B was conducted different sets. In set 1, trained algorithmic approach by theoretical for ...