Exploration on Improving the Teaching Quality of Exfoliocytology / 现代检验医学杂志

For making a improving of cytological study doctors in the short term in the basic operated techniques and the level of diagnosis of cytology,the experience of teaching practice in the past fifteen years were reviewed.Flexible teaching ways were appearanced that such as,the reasonable teaching plan and target were maked,promotting self-learning strategies in the work,and special topic lectures and difficult cases discussion were performed with multi-media teaching,and so on.Finally, the activeness and initiative of study doctors were mobilized,and may be passably has the obtaineding in the satisfactory teaching effect.

Detection of hydrothorax or ascites in patients with cancers using immunomagnetic beads technique / 中国癌症杂志

Background and purpose:Nowadays, the golden standard of diagnosis for malignant hydrothorax or ascites is exfoliocytology examination, but the missed diagnosis rate is too high. Other methods including immunologic test, telomerase activation test, conjugation of chromosome analysis with cytological examination test, and RT-PCR test. But none of them was widely used due to high cost or high false positive rate. Immunomagnetic beads (IMB) technique is a popular method all over the world in recent years. It was mainly used in isolating and purifying cells, but it was rarely used to detect cancer cells in patients with hydrothorax or ascites so far. Our aim was to fi nd an effi cient way to detect the cancer cells in patients with cancer related hydrothorax or ascites and to improve the corresponding diagnosis rate. Methods:In the experiments, both the traditional exfoliocytology examination method and IMB technique were used to detect the cancer cells in the hydrothorax or the ascites for comparison. Results:Using IMB technique and exfoliocytology method, the positive rates in 30 patients with cancers were 63.3% (19/30) and 23.3% (7/30), respectively, and the false positive rates in 30 patients without cancers were 3.3% (1/30) and 0.0% (0/30), respectively. It could be observed that the positive rate using IMB technique was much higher than that using exfoliocytology method (P0.05). Conclusions:The present study demonstrated that IMB technique is an accurate, sensitive, fast and economic method in detecting the cancer cells in patients with cancer related hydrothorax or ascites, especially for diagnosis and therapy in the early clinical stage. Due to the high effi ciency, IMB technique could be used after exfoliocytology examination to improve the diagnosis rate..