Application of the International System for Reporting Serous Fluid Cytopathology (ISRSFC) in reporting serous effusion: A retrospective study.

In order to develop uniform diagnostic standards and reporting terminology, the International Academy of Cytology and the American Society of Cytopathology have recommended the establishment of the International System for Reporting Serous Fluid Cytopathology (ISRSFC). ISRSFC has 5 diagnostic categories: non-diagnostic (ND), negative for malignancy (NFM), atypia of unknown significance (AUS), suspicious for malignancy (SFM), and malignant (MAL). So far, very few studies have evaluated the risk of malignancy (ROM) and performance characteristics (sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value, negative predictive value and diagnostic accuracy) of different categories.

Expression of claudin-5, -7, -8 and -9 in cervical carcinoma tissues and adjacent non-neoplastic tissues.

Recent data indicate that the tight junction proteins are abnormally regulated in several human cancers and the expression of these proteins is involved in the etiology and progression of cancer. To explore the expression distinction of the tight junction proteins claudin-5, -7, -8 and -9 in the adjacent non-neoplastic tissues and cervical carcinoma tissues, 72 cervical carcinoma tissues and the samples of non-neoplastic tissues adjacent to the tumors were examined for expression of claudin-5, -7, -8 and -9 by streptavidin-perosidase immunohistochemical staining method. The positive expression rates of claudin-5 in cervical carcinoma tissues and adjacent non-neoplastic tissues were 31.

Evaluation of eradication and drug therapy in patients with functional dyspepsia.

The aim of this study was to assess the effect of infection and drug therapy on functional dyspepsia (FD) symptoms and gastrointestinal eosinophil count. In this study, 215 continuous FD patients fulfilling Rome III criteria were enrolled. The patients were divided into a -positive group and a -negative group.