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6179426

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
1982-9-17
pubmed:abstractText
The cytological distinction between reactive mesothelial and malignant cells frequently causes problems for the diagnostic cytologist. In order to determine whether an immunocytochemical method might help resolve these difficult cases, we have stained smears from 309 serous effusions from 246 patients for the Epithelial Membrane Antigen (EMA). The EMA staining was classified as strong, weak or negative. Carcinoma cells (as diagnosed by conventional cytology) stained strongly for EMA in 63 of the 116 positive smears (54%). Five out of 15 (33%) of cytologically suspicious smears from patients with known carcinomas gave a strong EMA stain. Of particular interest were three effusions in which malignant cells were not identified in conventionally stained smears and in which a small number of EMA positive cells were identified. The EMA positive cells were subsequently restained by the Papanicolaou method and identified as malignant on retrospective morphological examination.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
AIM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Aug
pubmed:issn
0002-9173
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
78
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
214-9
pubmed:dateRevised
2004-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1982
pubmed:articleTitle
Epithelial Membrane Antigen. Its use in the cytodiagnosis of malignancy in serous effusions.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article