Publications by authors named "M Ehinger"

Introduction: Lymph node fine-needle aspiration cytology (LN-FNAC) is a common, rapid, minimally invasive and cost-effective diagnostic method. For mediastinal lymph nodes, endobronchial ultrasound (EBUS) guided LN-FNAC is a first-line investigation and has an indispensable role in the diagnosis and staging of patients with suspected lung cancer. Recently, a new WHO system has been proposed for classification of LN-FNAC heralding five different diagnostic categories; insufficient, benign, atypical, suspicious for malignancy and malignant.

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The diagnosis of lymphoma relies mainly on clinical examination and laboratory explorations. Among the latter, morphological and immunohistochemical analysis of a tissue biopsy are the cornerstones for proper identification and classification of the disease. In lymphoma with blood and/or bone marrow involvement, multiparameter flow cytometry is useful.

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Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is initiated and propagated by leukemia stem cells (LSCs), a self-renewing population of leukemia cells responsible for therapy resistance. Hence, there is an urgent need to identify new therapeutic opportunities targeting LSCs. Here, we performed an in vivo CRISPR knockout screen to identify potential therapeutic targets by interrogating cell surface dependencies of LSCs.

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Article Synopsis
  • The Sydney system was developed to improve standardization and reproducibility in lymph node cytopathology, with previous studies focusing on its risk of malignancy but not on how consistently different pathologists can interpret it.
  • A study involving 15 cytopathologists from 12 institutions globally evaluated 85 cases using digital whole-slide images, resulting in over 1200 diagnoses.
  • The findings indicated nearly perfect agreement with a ground truth for most diagnoses, but varying levels of concordance across categories, with the inadequate and malignant categories showing the most agreement, while suspicious and atypical categories had very slight agreement.
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