OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to assess the utility of the morphometric parameters in cytological aspirates in the categorization of breast lesions. MATERIAL AND METHOD The study was carried out on 50 females presenting with a breast lump for fine needle aspiration cytology. Air-dried smears from the aspirate were stained with Leishman and Giemsa stains while alcohol-fixed preparations ...

The Papanicolaou stain is a gold-standard staining method for tumor diagnosis in human cytology. However, it has not been used routinely in veterinary cytology, because of its complicated multistep procedure and requirement for wet fixation. Currently, a rapid Papanicolaou stain using air-dried smears is utilized in human cytology, but usefulness of this rapid-air-dry Papanicolaou (RAD-Pap) sta...

A total of 60 HIV infected patients complaining of dry cough for at least two weeks and attending the Out-patient Department of the Specialist Hospital, Waibargi, were screened for Pneumocystis carinii. Induced sputum samples were examined with Giemsa and Gomori silver methenamine stains. P. carinii were detected in 18 patients (30%) with silver stain and 13 patients (21.7%) with Giemsa stain. ...

Although Giemsa staining has been routinely used for the detection of trophozoites and intracystic bodies in smears of bronchoalveolar lavage fluid (BAL) from patients with Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia, it does not normally stain the cyst wall. For detection of the cysts other stains such as toluidine Blue 'O' and methenamine silver must be used as well. Sulphation of smears before staining w...

THE first description of the inclusion bodies of trachoma was made by Halberstaedter and von Prowazek following the examination of Giemsa-stained scrapings from the conjunctivae of baboons which had been inoculated with secretions from trachomatous patients (cf. Julianelle, 1938). Since then Giemsa and its modifications have held prime place as a means of demonstrating these structures and this...

We wish that considerations of space did not prevent us from giving an adequate and comprehensive review of this most valuable aiyi important addition to medical literature. With this volume the series of medical, as apart from general, official records of the Great War terminates, and in it there is struck an individual note rather different from that in the previous volumes. Section by sectio...

which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. A 60-year-old man presented with fever for 2 weeks. Ultrasonography and contrast-enhanced abdominal computed tomography revealed retroperitoneal and mesenteric lymphadenopathy. Fine-needle aspiration cytology of a right inguinal lymph node showed a monotonou...

a plasmodium were observed in three out 0 sixty-one specimens of the Malay chestnutbellied munia [Munia atricapilla atricapw0. (Vieill.) ] examined. The infected birds hao been imported and were obtained from dealersScott (1927) recorded a parasite of the order Hannosporidia in the same host from a biro which had died in the Zoological Society9 Gardens in London, but the infection was to? scant...

Plasmodium falciparum infections are frequently fatal if untreated and hence need to be diagnosed and treated early. Malaria diagnosis, with conventional Giemsa staining as a gold standard, has had several limitations. New rapid and accurate methods are needed for diagnosis. In this study, polymerase chain reaction (PCR) analysis specific for diagnosis of P. falciparum was evaluated. For the st...

A 66-year-old man presented with a white blood cell count of 62.63 10 /L. Peripheral blood (PB) smear showed 80% smallto medium-sized atypical lymphoid cells with irregular to cleaved (panel A; original magnification 3500, Wright-Giemsa stain) or binucleated nuclear contours, and slightly condensed chromatin (panel B; original magnification 31000, Wright-Giemsa stain). Bone marrow (BM) aspirate...