Soluble IL-2 receptor (sIL-2R), total protein, uric acid, glucose, aspartate aminotransferase (AST) and lactate dehydrogenase (LD) levels were analyzed in 153 (19 cytology(+), 134 cytology(-)) pairs of CSF and serum samples and the data were compared with the results of cytologic examination to find new CSF markers of CNS involvement in 77 patients with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). The C...

OBJECTIVES Human papillomavirus (HPV) testing is not widely used for triage of equivocal Pap smears or primary screening in Québec, Canada. Our objective was to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of cervical cancer screening strategies utilizing HPV testing. METHODS We used a lifetime Markov model to estimate costs, quality of life, and survival associated with the following strategies: 1) cytol...

the 1991 bethesda system for cervical/vaginal cytology reporting has defined adequacy criteria, including unsatisfactory designation. most laboratories in usa and a few laboratories in iran have implemented these criteria, but only few studies about clinical implications have been performed. all unsatisfactory papanicolaou (pap) smears taken between august 2000 and march 2002 were retrieved fro...

objective : this study aimed to review papanicolaou (pap) smears in patients of shohada hospital in tehran. materials and methods :  a cross-sectional descriptive study was carried out and a database search of all pap smear reports from 1995 to 2005 at cytopathology department was reviewed. the abnormal pap smear reports based on the bethesda system were assessed. results : a total of 13315 pap...

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 82% for brush cytology and 89% for biopsy h...

All thyroid nodules are not cancer and the fine needle aspiration cytology is an accepted cost effective simple method for screening the nodules for malignancy. A three-year study of thyroid lesions (March 2012 to march 2015) with aspiration and nonaspiration cytology for each. The main purpose of the study was to detect the prevalence of carcinoma by cytology and quality assessment of non -asp...

AIMS To evaluate the correlation of fine needle aspiration (FNA) cytology and frozen section biopsy in the diagnosis of thyroid nodules. METHODS The medical records of 662 patients who underwent FNA cytology of the thyroid and thyroid surgery were analysed. Frozen section biopsies were taken from 586 of the 662 patients. The diagnostic correlations of FNA cytology, frozen section, and both FN...

PURPOSE We investigated the merit of ultrasound (US) features and BRAF(V600E) mutation as an additional study of cytology and compared the diagnostic performances of cytology alone, cytology with US correlation, cytology with BRAFV600E mutation, and a combination of cytology, US, and BRAFV600E mutation all together. MATERIALS AND METHODS This study included 185 patients (mean age, 48.4 years;...

UNLABELLED Intra-operative imprint cytology is an important diagnostic modality in the diagnosis of thyroid lesions. A correct intra-operative diagnosis helps eliminate the need for second surgery. AIM To study diagnostic accuracy of imprint cytology and to compare the imprint cytology results with that of the corresponding paraffin section diagnosis in thyroidectomy cases. MATERIALS AND ME...

PURPOSE The sensitivity of urine cytology is higher for carcinoma in situ and poorly differentiated tumors in bladder cancer, while being fairly low for low-grade or well-differentiated tumors. Development of a sensitive diagnostic test to detect bladder carcinoma would significantly facilitate patient management and allow earlier treatment of this disease. This study compared ThinPrep urine cy...