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Diagnosis of metastatic renal cell carcinoma on fine-needle aspiration cytology.

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Lew, M; Foo, W-C; Roh, MH
Published in: Arch Pathol Lab Med
October 2014

Fine-needle aspiration has assumed an increasingly important role in the diagnosis and management of patients with advanced stage cancer. Given its predilection for metastases to distant sites and organs at the time of presentation, metastatic renal cell carcinoma (RCC) is not infrequently encountered in the setting of fine-needle aspiration for initial diagnosis. In some instances, fine-needle aspiration may be the only opportunity to obtain diagnostic tissue to diagnose and subclassify RCC. Therefore, cytopathologists and cytotechnologists should be familiar with and recognize the cytomorphology of RCC and the ancillary studies that can be used to confirm and subclassify RCC. Herein, we describe a case of metastatic RCC initially diagnosed on fine-needle aspiration, discuss the cytomorphologic features of RCC subtypes, and review pertinent ancillary immunohistochemical and cytogenetic adjuncts.

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Arch Pathol Lab Med

DOI

EISSN

1543-2165

Publication Date

October 2014

Volume

138

Issue

10

Start / End Page

1278 / 1285

Location

United States

Related Subject Headings

  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed
  • Pathology
  • Muscle Weakness
  • Male
  • Lymphatic Metastasis
  • Lymph Nodes
  • Lung Neoplasms
  • Lung
  • Kidney Neoplasms
  • Kidney
 

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Lew, M., Foo, W.-C., & Roh, M. H. (2014). Diagnosis of metastatic renal cell carcinoma on fine-needle aspiration cytology. Arch Pathol Lab Med, 138(10), 1278–1285. https://doi.org/10.5858/arpa.2014-0283-CC
Lew, Madelyn, Wen-Chi Foo, and Michael H. Roh. “Diagnosis of metastatic renal cell carcinoma on fine-needle aspiration cytology.Arch Pathol Lab Med 138, no. 10 (October 2014): 1278–85. https://doi.org/10.5858/arpa.2014-0283-CC.
Lew M, Foo W-C, Roh MH. Diagnosis of metastatic renal cell carcinoma on fine-needle aspiration cytology. Arch Pathol Lab Med. 2014 Oct;138(10):1278–85.
Lew, Madelyn, et al. “Diagnosis of metastatic renal cell carcinoma on fine-needle aspiration cytology.Arch Pathol Lab Med, vol. 138, no. 10, Oct. 2014, pp. 1278–85. Pubmed, doi:10.5858/arpa.2014-0283-CC.
Lew M, Foo W-C, Roh MH. Diagnosis of metastatic renal cell carcinoma on fine-needle aspiration cytology. Arch Pathol Lab Med. 2014 Oct;138(10):1278–1285.

Published In

Arch Pathol Lab Med

DOI

EISSN

1543-2165

Publication Date

October 2014

Volume

138

Issue

10

Start / End Page

1278 / 1285

Location

United States

Related Subject Headings

  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed
  • Pathology
  • Muscle Weakness
  • Male
  • Lymphatic Metastasis
  • Lymph Nodes
  • Lung Neoplasms
  • Lung
  • Kidney Neoplasms
  • Kidney