Background: Cytopathology is a minimally invasive and convenient diagnostic procedure, often used as a substitute for histopathology to diagnose and characterize lymphoma in dogs. Objectives: Assess the diagnostic performance of cytopathology in diagnosing lymphoma and its histopathological subtypes in dogs. Animals: One-hundred and sixty-one lymph node samples from 139 dogs with enlarged peripheral lymph nodes. Methods: Based only on cytopathology, 6 examiners independently provided the following interpretations on each sample: (a) lymphoma vs nonlymphoma; (b) grade and phenotype; and (c) World Health Organization (WHO) histopathological subtype. Histopathology and immunohistochemistry (IHC) findings were used as reference standards to evaluate diagnostic performance of cytopathology. Clinical, clinicopathologic, and imaging data also were considered in the definitive diagnosis. Results: Classification accuracy for lymphoma consistently was >80% for all examiners, whereas it was >60% for low grade T-cell lymphomas, >30% for high grade B-cell lymphomas, >20% for high grade T-cell lymphomas, and <40% for low grade B-cell lymphomas. Interobserver agreement evaluated by kappa scores was 0.55 and 0.32 for identification of lymphoma cases, and of grade plus immunophenotype, respectively. Conclusions and clinical importance: Cytopathology may result in accurate diagnosis of lymphoma, but accuracy decreases when further characterization is needed. Cytopathology represents a fundamental aid in identifying lymphoma and can be used as a screening test to predict grade and phenotype. However, these results must be confirmed using other ancillary techniques, including flow cytometry, histopathology, and immunohistochemistry (IHC).
Performance of lymph node cytopathology in diagnosis and characterization of lymphoma in dogs / V. Martini, G. Marano, L. Aresu, U. Bonfanti, P. Boracchi, M. Caniatti, F. Cian, M. Gambini, L. Marconato, C. Masserdotti, A. Nicoletti, F. Riondato, P. Roccabianca, D. Stefanello, E. Teske, S. Comazzi. - In: JOURNAL OF VETERINARY INTERNAL MEDICINE. - ISSN 0891-6640. - (2021). [Epub ahead of print] [10.1111/jvim.16326]
Performance of lymph node cytopathology in diagnosis and characterization of lymphoma in dogs
V. Martini
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;G. MaranoSecondo
;P. Boracchi;M. Caniatti;M. Gambini;P. Roccabianca;D. Stefanello;S. ComazziUltimo
2021
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Background: Cytopathology is a minimally invasive and convenient diagnostic procedure, often used as a substitute for histopathology to diagnose and characterize lymphoma in dogs. Objectives: Assess the diagnostic performance of cytopathology in diagnosing lymphoma and its histopathological subtypes in dogs. Animals: One-hundred and sixty-one lymph node samples from 139 dogs with enlarged peripheral lymph nodes. Methods: Based only on cytopathology, 6 examiners independently provided the following interpretations on each sample: (a) lymphoma vs nonlymphoma; (b) grade and phenotype; and (c) World Health Organization (WHO) histopathological subtype. Histopathology and immunohistochemistry (IHC) findings were used as reference standards to evaluate diagnostic performance of cytopathology. Clinical, clinicopathologic, and imaging data also were considered in the definitive diagnosis. Results: Classification accuracy for lymphoma consistently was >80% for all examiners, whereas it was >60% for low grade T-cell lymphomas, >30% for high grade B-cell lymphomas, >20% for high grade T-cell lymphomas, and <40% for low grade B-cell lymphomas. Interobserver agreement evaluated by kappa scores was 0.55 and 0.32 for identification of lymphoma cases, and of grade plus immunophenotype, respectively. Conclusions and clinical importance: Cytopathology may result in accurate diagnosis of lymphoma, but accuracy decreases when further characterization is needed. Cytopathology represents a fundamental aid in identifying lymphoma and can be used as a screening test to predict grade and phenotype. However, these results must be confirmed using other ancillary techniques, including flow cytometry, histopathology, and immunohistochemistry (IHC).File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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