...Saumya Sahu; Shelly Sharma; Parikshaa Gupta; Pranab Dey Background: The diagnosis of atypical cases in the effusion cytology sample often poses a challenge to the cytologists. Aims and Objectives: We evaluated the diagnostic role of MOC31 in the metastatic adenocarcinoma in effusion fluid...

...Ben Davidson With the exception of hematological malignancies, flow cytometry (FC) is infrequently applied as an ancillary tool in the diagnosis of malignant effusions in most institutions. However, FC may be effectively used to differentiate between epithelial cells, mesothelial cells...

...Lindsay Waters; Suzanne Crumley; Luan Truong; Dina Mody; Donna Coffey Objective: It was the aim of this study to determine the utility of PAX2 and PAX8 in cytology effusions with metastatic tumor. Study Design: PAX2 and PAX8 immunohistochemical staining was performed on cell blocks of 89 pleural...

...H. Nasser; T.J. Kuntzman Objectives: Pleural fluid metastasis occurs often secondary to a known primary tumor. We aim to identify the percentage of adenocarcinomas metastatic to pleural effusion in women and the frequency of another primary tumor being the origin of the effusion using morphology...

...Jo-Heon Kim; Young-Sill Kim; Yoo-Duk Choi; Ji-Shin Lee; Chang-Soo Park Objective: It was our aim to evaluate the usefulness of napsin A and thyroid transcription factor 1 (TTF-1) in the differential diagnosis of metastatic pulmonary and non-pulmonary adenocarcinomas (ACs) in pleural effusion. Study...