{"title":"Cytopathologic Diagnosis of CSF Metastasis: A 10-year Institutional Review","authors":"Rana Naous MD","doi":"10.1016/j.jasc.2024.08.027","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jasc.2024.08.027","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38262,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Society of Cytopathology","volume":"13 5","pages":"Pages S15-S16"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142270896","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Interobserver Variability in the Evaluation of Urine Cytology using The Paris System for Urine Cytopathology Classification: An Institutional Experience","authors":"Marilin Rosa MD, Hongzhi Xu MD, Aram Vosoughi MD, Jasreman Dhillon MD","doi":"10.1016/j.jasc.2024.08.033","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jasc.2024.08.033","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38262,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Society of Cytopathology","volume":"13 5","pages":"Pages S19-S20"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142270957","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Atypia of Undetermined Significance-Nuclear versus Other: Does Stratification Improve Risk? Time will Tell","authors":"Melissa Hogan MD, Kim Ely MD","doi":"10.1016/j.jasc.2024.08.077","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jasc.2024.08.077","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38262,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Society of Cytopathology","volume":"13 5","pages":"Page S42"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142271031","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Amr Ali MBBCH, Saroja Devi Geetha MBBS, Nourhan Ahmed MBBCH, Karen Chau MBA, CT(ASCP), Cecilia Gimenez MD, Suganthi Soundararajan MD, Seema Khutti MBBS, Kasturi Das MD, Deepika Savant MD
{"title":"Molecular Alterations in Suspicious for Follicular Neoplasm (Oncocytic Type) Category of The Bethesda System for Reporting Thyroid Cytopathology","authors":"Amr Ali MBBCH, Saroja Devi Geetha MBBS, Nourhan Ahmed MBBCH, Karen Chau MBA, CT(ASCP), Cecilia Gimenez MD, Suganthi Soundararajan MD, Seema Khutti MBBS, Kasturi Das MD, Deepika Savant MD","doi":"10.1016/j.jasc.2024.08.081","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jasc.2024.08.081","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38262,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Society of Cytopathology","volume":"13 5","pages":"Page S44"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142270581","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"ASC/SIL Ratio Benchmarks Should be Stratified by Human Papillomavirus Status","authors":"Kelly Doxzon MBA, CT(ASCP), Rachel McDougall MS, CT(ASCP), Allison Goldberg MD","doi":"10.1016/j.jasc.2024.08.046","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jasc.2024.08.046","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38262,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Society of Cytopathology","volume":"13 5","pages":"Pages S26-S27"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142270852","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Novel Education Tool to Detect and Prevent Errors in Diagnostic Cytopathology","authors":"Catherine Bodnar MD, Erek Kucher CT(ASCP), Aparna Mahajan MD","doi":"10.1016/j.jasc.2024.08.020","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jasc.2024.08.020","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38262,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Society of Cytopathology","volume":"13 5","pages":"Page S11"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142270860","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Second opinion for pulmonary and pleural cytology is valuable for patient care","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.jasc.2024.04.006","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jasc.2024.04.006","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Introduction</h3><p>Thoracic cytology can be challenging due to limited procured material or overlapping morphology between benign and malignant entities. In such cases, expert consultation might be sought. This study aimed to characterize all pulmonary and pleural cytology consult cases submitted to our practice and provide recommendations on approaching difficult cases.</p></div><div><h3>Materials and methods</h3><p>All thoracic (pulmonary and pleural) cytology cases submitted for expert consultation to the University of Michigan (MLabs) from 2013 to mid-2022 were reviewed. Cases where cytology was only part of a hematopathology<span> or surgical pathology consult were excluded. Patient demographics, specimen location, procedure performed, referring diagnosis, and our diagnoses were recorded for each case. Diagnoses were categorized according to the Papanicolaou Society of Cytopathology recommendations for pulmonary and effusion cytology. Discordant diagnoses were stratified as major or minor. Data was analyzed using chi-square analysis and logistic models.</span></p></div><div><h3>Results</h3><p><span><span>We received 784 thoracic cytology consult cases, including 530 exfoliative samples and 307 fine-needle aspirations. The most common anatomic locations sampled were the bronchial wall (n = 194, 23%), lung nodule<span> (n = 322, 38%), and pleura (n = 296, 35%). 413 cases had a diagnostic discrepancy (48.3%), with 274 (66%) minor and 139 (34%) major discrepancies. By location, </span></span>pleural effusion specimens had the highest probability of a discrepant diagnosis (</span><em>P</em> = 0.003). By specimen type, fine-needle aspiration samples were more likely to have a discrepant diagnosis (<em>P</em> = 0.09), approaching significance.</p></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><p>Nearly half of the thoracic cytology cases submitted for expert second opinion had diagnostic discrepancies. Consequently, consulting a tertiary medical care center with cytopathology expertise for challenging thoracic cytology diagnoses is beneficial.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":38262,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Society of Cytopathology","volume":"13 5","pages":"Pages 367-376"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141094511","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Alexander Perez MD, Daniel Shepherd MD, Jennifer Gordetsky MD, Kim Ely MD
{"title":"Sticky Situations in Colposcopy Conference: to Telfa or Not","authors":"Alexander Perez MD, Daniel Shepherd MD, Jennifer Gordetsky MD, Kim Ely MD","doi":"10.1016/j.jasc.2024.08.059","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jasc.2024.08.059","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38262,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Society of Cytopathology","volume":"13 5","pages":"Page S32"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142269941","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Allan Argueta Morales, Ramon Robledano MD, Mercedes Aguirre, Maria Eugenia Echarri, Angeles Murillo, Nassira Fernandez, Nerea Gomez, Maria Lozano MD, PhD, MIAC
{"title":"Cytology Smears can be Effectively Used on Two Different Fully Automated Real-Time PCR Platforms That Have Been Validated for Use Only with FFPE Tissue","authors":"Allan Argueta Morales, Ramon Robledano MD, Mercedes Aguirre, Maria Eugenia Echarri, Angeles Murillo, Nassira Fernandez, Nerea Gomez, Maria Lozano MD, PhD, MIAC","doi":"10.1016/j.jasc.2024.08.090","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jasc.2024.08.090","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38262,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Society of Cytopathology","volume":"13 5","pages":"Pages S49-S50"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142270379","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}