HYPOTHESIS Clinical or cytologic factors predictive of malignancy can be identified and incorporated into a treatment algorithm for patients with a fine-needle aspiration biopsy (FNAB) specimen interpreted as "suspicious for" papillary thyroid cancer (PTC). DESIGN Retrospective review of a prospectively maintained database. SETTING University-affiliated tertiary care hospital. PATIENTS Se...

"Low-grade squamous intraepithelial lesion (LSIL), cannot exclude high-grade squamous intraepithelial lesion" (LSIL-H) is an increasingly used, equivocal interpretive category in gynecologic cytology. In an effort to evaluate its potential usefulness as a measure of quality assurance, we studied patterns of use of the LSIL-H diagnosis compared with "LSIL" and "high-grade squamous intraepithelia...

Objective(s): In developing countries and worldwide cervical cancer is an important cause of   female mortality. Reports describing the frequency and pattern of abnormal Pap smears in Saudi Arabia, using the revised Bethesda system (RBS) are very few. The current study was conducted to explore the changing pattern of epithelial cell abnormalities (ECA) detected in Pap smears (PS) in females of ...

antineutrophil antibodies;7 and (2) tumor necrosis factor (TNF)– mediated myelosuppression, in a setting of rituximab-induced TNFrelease.8 Finally, detection of del(20)(q11.2) is evidence for secondary myelodysplastic syndrome related to high-dose therapy (HDT)9; nevertheless, as previously shown, one cannot exclude the possibility of stem cell damage resulting from prior conventional dose chem...