Effect of increasing the surface sampled by imprint cytology on the...

The American Surgeon;  May 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......surface sampled during intraoperative imprint cytology. Sentinel nodes from 110 patients...eosin-stained touch preparations. Imprint cytology was performed either on bisected nodes...nodes detected intraoperatively by imprint cytology, but a number of metastatic nodes...

Local recurrence of breast cancer after cytological evaluation of...

The American Surgeon;  June 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ......conservation therapy has been studied using imprint cytology. The use of imprint cytology has unified the roles of the pathologist...preservation. In addition, the routine use of imprint cytology provides a more accurate assessment of...

Intraoperative evaluation of lumpectomy margins by imprint cytology with...

Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine;  July 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ......positive margins were not reexcised. Imprint cytology is a rapid technique for evaluating...retrospectively reviewed the intraoperative imprint cytology margins of 141 lumpectomy speci mens...unsatisfactory margins. Conclusions.-Imprint cytology is an accurate, simple, rapid, and...

Selective Use of Intraoperative Touch Prep Analysis of Sentinel Nodes in...

The American Surgeon;  November 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ...Imprint cytology (touch prep) is often used for intraoperative...ASSESSMENT OF sentinel lymph nodes with imprint cytology ("touch prep") has become a popular...cytology. Early studies suggested that imprint cytology of sentinel lymph nodes is a reliable...

SLN Technique in Neck Oral Cancer

The Journal of Nuclear Medicine;  November 1, 2005 ;     290 words ......effectiveness of multislice frozen section analysis and imprint cytology was assessed in the intraoperative diagnosis of SLN biopsies...Multislice frozen section analysis was found to be superior to imprint cytology in its sensitivity, specificity, and overall accuracy...

The potential value of intraoperative imprint cytology of axillary...

The American Surgeon;  January 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ......nodes may be undetected by the method imprint cytology is valuable in the intraoperative...adjuvant treatment.21 On the other hand imprint cytology does not damage the tissues. This...undertaken to estimate the value of imprint cytology in the intraoperative assessment of...

Interpretative problems and preparative technique influence reliability of...

Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine;  January 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......during parathyroid and thyroid surgery. Touch imprint preparation (TIP) examination is potentially...examination (FSE), or (c) cytologic touch imprint preparation (TIP) examination. The...were handled in a consistent manner. Touch imprint evaluation was performed by touching...

Do cytokeratin-positive-only sentinel lymph nodes warrant complete...

The American Surgeon;  June 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ......breast cancer. SLNs were examined by imprint cytology, hematoxylin and eosin (H&E...per cent; H&E, 94 per cent; and imprint cytology, 87 per cent. A logistic regression...H&E (P = 0.033), and 3.86 for imprint cytology (P = 0.0059). These data validate...

The Use of Frozen Section and Immunohistochemistry for Sentinel Lymph Node...

The American Surgeon;  May 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......intraoperative SLN analysis, either by frozen section or imprint cytology, be performed? and 2) should immunohistochemistry (IHC...surgical field. The main techniques in the literature include imprint cytology (IC), also known as touch prep analysis and/or frozen section...

World's First CE Marked Real-Time, Gene-Based Test for Improved Detection...

PR Newswire Europe;  November 6, 2006 ;     700+ words ......GeneSearch(TM) BLN Test has improved sensitivity over current intraoperative sentinel node test methods such as touch imprint cytology and frozen section. By testing as much as 45 percent more of the lymph node tissue, the GeneSearch(TM) BLN test...

Sentinel node biopsy and cytokeratin staining for the accurate staging of...

The American Surgeon;  June 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ......combination of vital blue dye and technetium-labeled sulfur colloid. The excised SLNs were examined grossly, by intraoperative imprint cytology, by standard H&E histology, and by IHC stains for CK. SLNs that were only CK positive were confirmed malignant by sectioning...

Intraventricular adamantinomatous craniopharyngioma in a child

Neurology India;  April 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......Abdullah Jafri J, Idris Z. Intraventricular squamous papillary craniopharyngioma: Report of a case with intraoperative imprint cytology. Acta Cytol 2005;49:431-4. 2. Shah GB, Bhaduri AS, Misra BK. Ectopic craniopharyngioma of the fourth ventricle: Case report...

Use of Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy for Melanoma of the Head and...

The American Surgeon;  August 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......with adequate margins). Sentinel lymph nodes were routinely sent for intraoperative imprint cytologie examination. The imprint cytology ("touch prep") result was sent back to the operating room and completion of the lymphadenectomy (modified radical neck...

Understanding Paget's disease

Indianapolis Recorder;  June 17, 2005 ;     638 words ......spontaneously become cancerous Paget cells. The disease can be diagnosed in several ways including a mammogram, scrape cytology, imprint cytology and a biopsy. "Treatment of Paget's disease depends on how far the cancer has advanced," said Tonya Blair of the National...

Ultrasound-guided needle biopsy of primary bone tumours

Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery;  January 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ......under direct supervision of the consultant. The unfixed samples were taken direct to the Department of Histopathology for imprint cytology. This has several advantages in that it gives a rapid assessment of the presence of sufficient viable tissue, and in most...