Rapid on-site evaluation using telecytology: Quality assurance study at a high-volume cancer center.

Background: Telecytology-assisted rapid on-site evaluation (ROSE) offers a cost-effective method to enhance minimally invasive biopsies like fine needle aspiration and core biopsies with touch preparation. By reducing nondiagnostic sampling and the need for repeat procedures, ROSE via telecytology facilitates prompt triage for ancillary tests, improving patient management. This study examines cases initially deemed adequate for diagnosis during telecytology-assisted ROSE but later categorized as nondiagnostic at final evaluation (NDIS).

Rapid on-site evaluation using telecytology: A major cancer center experience.

Background: Rapid on-site evaluation (ROSE) with cytology preparations plays a critical role in minimally invasive procedures. The time spent by a pathologist performing ROSE is unpredictable and could be used for more cost-effective activities. The solution encountered by several institutions to address this issue is the use of telecytology (TC).

Novel Modification of HistoGel-Based Cell Block Preparation Method: Improved Sufficiency for Molecular Studies.

Context: - Cell block preparation methods vary substantially across institutions and are frequently suboptimal. The growing importance of biomarker testing in the era of targeted therapies makes optimization of cell block preparation critically important.

Objective: - To develop an improved cell block preparation method.

Robotic Telecytology for Remote Cytologic Evaluation without an On-site Cytotechnologist or Cytopathologist: An Active Quality Assessment and Experience of Over 400 Cases.

Background: The first satellite center to offer interventional radiology procedures at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center opened in October 2014. Two of the procedures offered, fine needle aspirations and core biopsies, required a rapid on-site cytologic evaluation of smears and biopsy touch imprints for cellular content and adequacy. The volume and frequency of such evaluations did not justify hiring on-site cytotechnologists, and therefore, a dynamic robotic telecytology (TC) solution was created.

Successful Secure High-definition Streaming Telecytology for Remote Cytologic Evaluation.

Background: The use of minimally invasive procedures to obtain material for diagnostic purposes has become more prevalent in recent years. As such, there is increased demand for immediate cytologic adequacy assessment of minimally invasive procedures. The array of different locations in which rapid on-site evaluation (ROSE) is expected requires an ever-increasing number of cytology personnel to provide support for adequacy assessment.

Robotic Telecytology for Remote Cytologic Evaluation without an On-site Cytotechnologist or Cytopathologist: A Tale of Implementation and Review of Constraints.

Background: The first satellite center to offer interventional radiology procedures at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center opened in October 2014. Two of the procedures offered, fine needle aspirations and core biopsies, required rapid on-site cytologic evaluation of smears and biopsy touch imprints for cellular content and adequacy. The volume and frequency of such evaluations did not justify hiring on-site cytotechnologists, and therefore, a dynamic robotic telecytology (TC) solution was created.

Impact of touch preparations on core needle biopsies.

Background: Touch preparations (TPs) can be performed for on-site adequacy assessment of core needle biopsies (CNBs). Although TPs can play a role in decreasing the number of nondiagnostic core biopsies, the impact of TPs on CNB has not been extensively evaluated.

Methods: Computerized tomography-guided CNBs performed in a tertiary cancer center were retrospectively identified.

Predicting pulmonary adenocarcinoma outcome based on a cytology grading system.

Background: Pulmonary adenocarcinoma (AD) has a variety of architectural patterns. Recently, a 3-tiered histological pattern-based grading system was developed for stage I lung AD, stratifying patients into low, intermediate, and high risk for recurrence. However, cytology may serve as the primary method for diagnosis in patients with inoperable disease.

Cytologic diagnosis of pulmonary adenocarcinoma with micropapillary pattern: does it correlate with the histologic findings?

Micropapillary adenocarcinoma is associated with poor-prognosis in several organs including the lung. The presence of small tight balls of neoplastic cells devoid of fibrovascular core in cytological preparations (micropapillary tufts) has been described as characteristic of micropapillary adenocarcinoma. In the lung, however, this criterion has not been validated.

Effectiveness of the Thin Prep Imaging System in the detection of adenocarcinoma of the gynecologic system.

Background: The ThinPrep Imaging System (TIS) has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for use to decrease the number of false-negative results in ThinPrep (TP) gynecologic specimens and increase cytotechnology productivity.