New pages about the various diagnostic features exhibited by mesothelial cells now appear in the pages section. The page of the day is clusters with collagen cores. For contributing or adding personal illustrations, please do not hesitate to send material to the project coordinator.

Malignant serous effusion in the pleura, peritoneum and (less frequently) pericardium is a frequent complication of primary adenocarcinomas, particularly in female patients with breast or ovarian cancer, and in both sexes with lung carcinoma. In female patients, about 2/3 of ovarian carcinoma cases have intraperitoneal free cancer cells (IFCCs) in

Virganeyce Lyons-Boudreaux and colleagues, from the Department of Pathology of Houston (Texas), recently published a paper ** about "Cytologic malignancy versus benignancy: how useful are the newer markers in body fluid cytology?" in the January 2008 issue of Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine (2008 Jan; 132(1): 23-8). MOC-31 positive ad

As it is stated in the New England Journal of Medicine "Images in Clinical Medicine" section, images are an important part of what we can learn in medicine. Images shown are those of a Papanicolaou-stained peritoneal fluid in a 89-year-old woman. The patient had no particular history, except ascitis. Case 09EC04672, provided by E. Piaton Cytologica

Oscar Lin, pathologist at the Department of Pathology of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, recently published a paper ** entitled "Challenges in the interpretation of peritoneal cytologic specimens" in the May 2009 issue of Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine. **Obtained from the Allen Press, Inc. full text link found

The diagnostic and molecular characteristics of malignant mesothelioma and ovarian/peritoneal serous carcinoma Ben Davidson (Division of Pathology, Norwegian Radium Hospital, Oslo University Hospital, Norway) recently published in Cytopathology 2011 Feb;22(1):5-21 Malignant mesothelioma and ovarian/peritoneal serous carcinoma are two of the most co

New pages about the various diagnostic features exhibited by adenocarcinomatous cells now appear in the pages section. The page of the day is serous papillary adenocarcinoma (1). For contributing or adding personal illustrations, please do not hesitate to send material to the E-sc@n project coordinator.

New, original images have been received from Ben Davidson (Oslo, Norway) about modern immunocytochemical markers that can be successfully applied to effusions. Some markers are clearly diagnostic (calretinin, MUC-4, HER2/neu...) whereas others may have a prognostic value. For example, the growth factor granulin-epithelin precursor (GEP) is a novel

A new page about the communication and publication actions we intend to develop now appear in the pages section. The page of the day is promotional aspects - communication and publication. For contributing or for adding personal illustrations, please do not hesitate to send material to the E-sc@n project coordinator.

Dilip K. Das, Associate Professor at the Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine of Kuwait University, recently published a paper ** entitled " Psammoma body: a product of dystrophic calcification or of a biologically active process that aims at limiting the growth and spread of tumor? " in the April 2009 issue of Diagnostic Cytopathology. **O