Prashant Sharma

..We report a case of congenital benign cervical teratoma in a female child. The unusual asymptomatic nature of the tumour and its relationship with the thyroid is highlighted...

..Leiomyomatosis peritonealis disseminata (LPD) is a rare condition characterized by multiple subperitoneal nodules of benign smooth muscle. The lesion usually occurs in women of childbearing age...

..To study the Ki-67 labeling indices in surface scrape smears from patients with oral squamous cell carcinoma before and after 24 Gray radiotherapy...

..To quantitate radiation-associated cytologic abnormalities in oral cancer cells and analyze their relationships with radiation dose, clinical stage and histologic grade...

..Filariasis is often an occult disease with myriad presentations. Cytology has an established role in diagnosing clinically unsuspected cases...

..Cytologic diagnosis of malignant fibrous histiocytoma can be problematic, as these neoplasms are known to mimic multiple other conditions...

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..Their combination into a cohesive TEM score possibly better captured the multiple hemostatic derangements occurring in DIC. The TEM score may bring objectivity to the analysis of TEM data...

..Acquired platelet function defects (PFDs) remain poorly characterized, underrecognized, and therefore understudied...

..Osteosarcomas, despite their aggressive nature and propensity to metastasize, only rarely give rise to skin deposits...

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..Interpreting hemoglobin high performance liquid chromatograms with borderline HbA₂ values is often problematic, especially in antenatal cases if the partner is a known thalassemia trait...

..There is no study available on the frequency, predisposing factors and outcome of needle stick injury (NSI) in cytopathologists who perform fine needle aspiration (FNA)...

..This is, to the best of our knowledge, the first description of such cells in a blast crisis of chronic myeloid leukemia...

..The incidental discovery of a stromal luteoma in a total hysterectomy specimen removed for endometrial carcinoma raises interesting questions about the perceived innocuous nature of these rare lipid cell tumors...

..We report their presence in a bone marrow biopsy and a spleen from 2 patients with hemoglobin E disease and thalassemia intermedia, respectively. The pathogenesis of these cells and their multiple known associations are discussed...

..This case report provides the morphologic clues to cytopathologists toward rendering a diagnosis and alerts them to the possibility of parasitic infection in unusual locations...

..The patient is asymptomatic without any evidence of recurrence 14 months postoperatively. To our knowledge, this is only the third reported case of this tumour occurring in the zygomatic bone in the medical literature...

..To explore the utility of bone marrow (BM) angiogenesis in differentiating primary myelofibrosis (PMF) from secondary myelofibrosis (MF)...

..Lowered cutoffs increased sensitivity (eg, 91.5% at 1000 ng/mL) but diminished specificity (59%), limiting use of screening. In conclusion, the quantitative D-dimer as a stand-alone assay has a limited role in diagnosis of overt DIC...

..An association of NF-1 with acute PRCA has not been described in indexed English literature in the past...