Publications by authors named "Melissa Stemmer"

In the era of personalized medicine, there has been an increase in demand on cytopathology service to perform rapid onsite evaluation of touch imprints (ROSETIs) of needle core biopsies (NCBs) to ensure sample adequacy and provide preliminary diagnosis. Limited publications have addressed use of telecytopathology for ROSETIs. We present our experience with telecytopathology-guided ROSETIs of NCBs.

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Background: The cervical cancer screening recommendation for transgender female-to-male (FTM) patients is the same as that for cisgender females. A lack of literature on testosterone-induced changes in cervical cytology in these patients may result in interpretation errors, especially without a proper clinical history. The aim of this study was to delineate the Papanicolaou (Pap) test findings in this patient population.

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. Secretory carcinoma is a recently described entity with characteristic immunoprofile and (12p13) rearrangement. Before its initial description, it was generally diagnosed as acinic cell carcinoma (ACCi).

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