Cytology is elegant in the sense that a concise mathematical proof, a fine bicycle, or a
classical guitar is elegant. The means for clinical diagnosis by study of cellular alterations …

OBJECTIVE: To study the reasons for interpretive errors in false negative diagnosis of breast
carcinoma on fine needle aspiration cytology material. STUDY DESIGN: We reviewed only …

I read with interest the description by Shamonki et al 1 of “fauniform changes” in breast
pathology. It is worthy of note that, as with many other aspects of human disease …

Significant and Unexpected Versus Critical Results in Surgical Pathology Page 1 1366 Arch
Pathol Lab Med—Vol 133, September 2009 Editorial—Sarewitz & Williams Editorials …

Sweden is a small, well-developed, sparsely populated country with a little more than 8
million people. We have only one town, the capital Stockholm, with more than l million …

In 1300, pitfall referred to an animal trap, such as branches laid across a deep hole offering
no escape. Since the 1580s, pitfall has come to describe any hidden or unexpected difficulty …

Fine‐needle aspiration (FNA) is a valuable technique to use in the evaluation of breast
lesions; however, inadequate and discrepant diagnoses do occur. To identify the source and …

To evaluate the causes of false-negative and false-positive results in transthoracic fine
needle aspirates (TFNAs), we reviewed our experience with this technique over the 20-year …

The consequences of patient identification errors due to specimen mislabeling can be
deleterious. We describe two near‐miss events involving mislabeled breast specimens from …

Detailed root cause analysis to determine causes of pulmonary cytology errors has not been
used to design specific practice changes. We performed root cause analysis of all false …