Cytology ABCDE: A Practical ABCDE Algorithm for Cytology Diagnosis

Aims An approach to the process of undertaking cytopathology diagnosis for medical students and those who operate with cytology specimens is presented. Material and Methods This simple mnemonic (ABCDE) can be used as a memory aid determining the order in which cells or tissue fragments should be evaluated. When receiving a slide for diagnosis and prior to examining it under the microscope we need to make sure that it is correctly labelled and prepared (Correct) and we also need to know or gather all available information concerning the patient (A, Available Information). Once under the microscope, we check the type of cells and the adequacy of specimen (B, Body & Being Adequate). Next, by taking into consideration the cellular morphology and potentially by performing ancillary studies we proceed to answer if the cells are neoplastic or not (C, Cancer). We then either form a differential diagnosis list or we end up with our final diagnosis (D, Differential diagnosis or Diagnosis), which is followed by the writing of the report (E, Exhibit). Results These sequential steps (Correct ABCDE) followed as an ad hoc procedure by most pathologists, are important in order to achieve a complete and clear diagnosis and report, which is intended to support optimal clinical practice. Conclusions This ABCDE concept is a generic standard approach which is not limited to specific specimens and can help improve both cytopathology diagnoses and the quality of the final cytopathology reports

Breast carcinoma histological images from the Department of Pathology, "Agios Pavlos" General Hospital of Thessaloniki, Greece

This dataset contains cases of breast carcinoma histological specimens received at the Department of Pathology, “Agios Pavlos” General Hospital of Thessaloniki, Greece. The dataset consists of 300 annotated images of resolution 1280x960 corresponding to 21 different patients with invasive ductal carcinoma of the breast of grades 1-3 (grouped in the corresponding folders). More details about the dataset are presented in the paper: K. Dimitropoulos, P. Barmpoutis, C. Zioga, A. Kamas, K. Patsiaoura and N. Grammalidis, "Grading of invasive breast carcinoma through Grassmannian VLAD encoding", submitted for publication to PLOS ONE, 2017

Extremely rare case of primary cardiac chondroma in a patient presenting with acute pulmonary edema

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