The Continuing Value of Electron Microscopy in Surgical Pathology

References

• Rosai J, Rodriquez HA. Application of electron microscopy to the differential diagnosis of tumors. Am J Clin Pathol. 1968; 50: 555–562.
   Google Scholar
• Williams MJ. Electron microscopy in the Veterans Administration for service pathology: some administrative aspects of the program. Hum Pathol. 1975;6:399–400.
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Mackay B, Ordo´ ñez NG. The role of the pathologist in the evaluation of poorly differentiated tumors. Semin Oncol. 1982;9:396–415.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Williams MJ, Uzman BG. Uses and contributions of diagnostic electron microscopy in surgical pathology: a study of 20 Veterans Administration hospitals. Hum Pathol. 1984; 15: 738–745.
   Google Scholar
• Ghadially FN. Diagnostic Electron Microscopy of Tumours. ed 2. London: Butterworths; 1985.
   Google Scholar
• Erlandson RA. Diagnostic Transmission Electron Microscopy of Human Tumors: The Interpretation of Submicroscopic Structures in Human Neoplastic Cells. New York: Masson; 1981.
   Google Scholar
• Henderson DW, Papadimitriou JM, Coleman M. Ultrastructural Appearances of Tumors: Diagnosis and Classi®cation of Human Neoplasia by Electron Microscopy ed 2. New York: Churchill Livingstone; 1986.
   Google Scholar
• Gyorkey F, Min KW, Krisko I, Gyorkey P. The usefulness of electron microscopy in the diagnosis of human tumors. Hum Pathol. 1975;6:421–441.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Kuzela DC, True LD, Eiseman B. The role of electron microscopy in the management of surgical patients. Ann Surg. 1982;195:1–11.
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Fisher C, Ramsay AD, Griffths M, McDougall J. An assessment of the value of electron microscopy in tumour diagnosis. J Clin Pathol. 1985; 38: 403–408.
   Google Scholar
• Carr J, Toner PG. Rapid electron microscopy in oncology. J Clin Pathol. 1977;30:13–15.
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Taylor CR. Monoclonal antibodies and ``routine´´ paraffn sections. Arch Pathol Lab Med. 1985; 109: 115–116.
   Google Scholar
• Ver- Roma`n JM. Will cell markers replace histopathological experience in human tissue diagnosis? Ultrastruct Pathol. 1985;8:iii-v.
   Google Scholar
• Hammar SP. Is electron microscopy dying? Ultrastruct Pathol. 1986;10: iii-v.
   Google Scholar
• Nesland JM, J ohannessen JV. The preservation of an endangered species. Ultrastruct Pathol. 1988;12:iii.
   Google Scholar
• Erlandson RA, Rosai J. A realistic approach to the use of electron microscopy and other ancillary diagnostic techniques in surgical pathology. Am J Surg Pathol. 1995; 19: 247–250.
   Google Scholar
• Dardick I, Herrera GA. Diagnostic electron microscopy of neoplasms. Hum Pathol. 1998; 29: 1335–1338.
   Google Scholar
• Ordo´ ñez NG, Mackay B. Electron microscopy in tumor diagnosis: indications for use in the immunohistochemical era. Hum Pathol. 1998;29:1403–1411.
   Google Scholar
• Mierau GW. Electron microscopy of tumor diagnosis: not redundantö resurgent! Histopathology. 1999;35:99–101.
   Google Scholar
• Eyden B. Electron microscopy in tumor diagnosis: continuing to complement other diagnostic techniques. Histopathology. 1999; 35: 102–108.
   Google Scholar
• Dardick I, Burford- Mason AP. Pathology the salivary glands: the contribution of electron microscopy. Microsc Res Tech. 1994;27:46–60.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Sidhu GS. The ultrastructural markers of AIDS. MSA Bull. 1993; 23: 276–280.
   Google Scholar
• Azar HA, Morningstar WA, Vracko R, White HJ. Problems in the development of a clinically oriented program in electron microscopy. Hum Pathol. 1975;6:485–489.
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• American Medical Association. Graduate Medical Education Directory 2000-2001. Chicago: American Medical Association; 2000.
   Google Scholar
• Dickersin GR. Diagnostic Electron Microscopy: A Text/ Atlas, ed 2. New York: Springer; 2000.
   Google Scholar
• Papadimitriou J M, Henderson DW, Spagnolo DV, eds. Diagnostic Ultrastructure of Non- neoplastic Diseases. New York: Churchill Livingstone; 1992.
   Google Scholar
• Spargo BH, Seymour AE, Ordo´ ñez NG. Renal Biopsy Pathology with Diagnostic and Therapeutic Implications. New York: Wiley; 1980.
   Google Scholar
• Papadimitriou J M. Ultrastructural abnormalities in human diseased skeletal muscle. MSA Bull. 1993;23:298–305.
   Google Scholar
• Papadimitriou J M. Ultrastructural fndings in the human peripheral neuropathies. MSA Bull. 1993;23:306–313.
   Google Scholar
• Erlandson RA. Diagnostic Transmission Electron Microscopy of Tumors with Clinicopathological, Immunohistochemical, and Cytogenetic Correlations. New York: Raven; 1994.
   Google Scholar
• Meis- Kindblom J M, Kindblom LG, Enzinger FM. Sclerosing epithelioid fbrosarcoma: variant of fbrosarcoma simulating carcinoma. Am J Surg Pathol. 1995; 19: 979–993.
   Google Scholar
• Nielsen GP, Dickersin GR, Provenzal J M, Rosenberg AE. Lipomatous hemangiopericytoma: a histologic, ultrastructural and immunohistochemical study of a unique variant of hemangiopericytoma. Am J Surg Pathol. 1995; 19: 748–756.
   Google Scholar
• Cook PD, Czerniak B, Chan JKC, Mackay B, Ordo´ n¬ez NG, Ayala AG, Rosai J. Nodular spindle- cell vascular transformation of lymph nodes: a benign process occurring predominantly in retroperitoneal lymph nodes draining carcinomas that can simulate Kaposi´s sarcoma or metastati c tumor. Am J Surg Pathol. 1995; 19: 1010–1020.
   Google Scholar
• Yamazaki K, Eyden BP. Ultrastructural and immunohistochemical observations on intralobular fbroblasts of human breast, with observations on the CD34 antigen. J Submicrosc Cytol Pathol. 1995; 27: 309–323.
   Google Scholar
• Argenyi ZB, Cain C, Bromley C, Nguyen AV, Abraham AA, Kerschmann R, LeBoit PE. S- 100 protein- negative malignant melanoma: fact or fction? A light- microscopic and immunhistochemical study. Am J Dermatopathol. 1994; 16: 233–240.
   Google Scholar
• Miller FR, Heppner GH. Immunologic heterogeneity of tumor cell subpopulations from a single mouse mammary tumor. J Natl Cancer Inst. 1979; 63: 1457–1463.
   Google Scholar
• Gould VE. Multidirectional differentiation. Ultrastruct Pathol. 1983;5:iii.
   Google Scholar
• Miettinen M. Immunohistochemistry of solid tumors: brief review of selected problems (Review). Acta Pathol Microbiol Immunol Scand. 1990:98:191 -199.
   Google Scholar
• Dardick I, Dardick A, Robb I, Carpenter B, J imenez C, Nizalik E. Role of electron microscopy in head and neck pathology in adults and children. Ultrastruct Pathol. 1993; 17: 427–442.
   Google Scholar
• Parham DM, Weeks DA, Beckwith JB. The clinicopathologic spectrum of putative extrarenal rhabdoid tumors. Am J Surg Pathol. 1994; 18: 1010–1029.
   Google Scholar
• Papierz W, Alwasiak J, Kolasa P, Wegrzyn Z, Zakrzewski K, Polis L, Debiec- Rychter M, Liberski PP. Primitive neuroectodermal tumors: ultrastructural and immunohistochemical studies. Ultrastruct Pathol. 1995; 19: 147–166.
   Google Scholar
• Hammar SP. The pathology of benign and malignant pleural disease. Chest Surg Clin North Am. 1994;4:405–430.
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Oury TD, Hammar SP, Roggli VL. Ultrastructural features of diffuse mesotheliomas. Hum Pathol. 1998; 29: 1382–1392.
   Google Scholar
• Henderson DW. Transmission electron microscopy of malignant mesothelioma. MSA Bull. 1993; 23: 288–297.
   Google Scholar
• Fisher C. The value of electronmicroscopy and immunohistochemistry in the diagnosis of soft tissue sarcomas: a study of 200 cases. Histopathology. 1990;16:441–454.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Erlandson RA. Woodruff JM. Role of electron microscopy in the evaluation of soft tissue neoplasms, with emphasis on spindle cell and pleomorphic tumors. Hum Pathol. 1998; 29: 1372–1381.
   Google Scholar
• Tucker J A, Shelburne JD, Benning TL, Yacoub L, Federman M. Filamentous inclusions in acinar cell carcinoma of the pancreas. Ultrastruct Pathol. 1994; 18: 279–286.
   Google Scholar
• Tucker JA. Crystal- defcient alveolar soft part sarcoma. Ultrastruct Pathol. 1993; 17: 279–286.
   Google Scholar
• Mierau GW, Berry PJ, Malott RL, Weeks DA. Appraisal of the comparative utility of immunohistochemistry and electron microscopy in the diagnosis of childhood round cell tumors. Ultrastruct Pathol. 1996; 20: 507–517.
   Google Scholar
• Mierau GW, Weeks DA, Hicks MJ. Role of electron microscopy and other special techniques in the diagnosis of childhood round cell tumors. Hum Pathol. 1998; 29: 1347–1355.
   Google Scholar
• Hammar SP. Metastatic adenocarcinoma of unknown primary origin. Hum Pathol. 1998; 29: 1393–1402.
   Google Scholar
• Frost AR, Orenstein JM, Abraham AA, Silverberg SG. A comparison of usefulness of electron microscopy and immunohistochemistry: one laboratory´s experience. Arch Pathol Lab Med. 1994; 118: 922–926.
   Google Scholar
• Leong ASY. Immunohistochemistry and electron microscopy as combined modalities for the examination of anaplastic tumors. MSA Bull. 1993; 23: 227–241.
   Google Scholar
• Rosai J. Special techniques in surgical pathology: electron microscopy. In Ackerman’s Surgical Pathology, ed 8. St Louis: Mosby; 1996: 32–34.
   Google Scholar
• Hammond EH, Yowell RL, Flinner RL. Neuroendocrine carcinomas: role of immunohistochemistry and electron microscopy. Hum Pathol. 1998; 29: 1367–1371.
   Google Scholar
• Schlag PM, Hunerbein M. Cancer of unknown primary site. Ann Chir Gynaecol. 1994;83:8–12.
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Mukherjee TM, Dixon B. Diagnostic electron microscopy procedures. MSA Bull. 1993; 23: 200–205.
   Google Scholar
• Estrada JC, Brinn NT, Bossen EH. A rapid method of staining ultra- thin sections for surgical pathology TEM with the use of the microwave oven. Am J Clin Pathol. 1985; 83: 639–641.
   Google Scholar
• Login GR, Dwyer BK, Dvorak AM. Rapid primary microwave- osmium fxation, I: preservation of structure of electron microscopy in seconds. J Histochem Cytochem. 1990; 38: 755–762.
   Google Scholar
• Leong ASY. A review of microwave techniques for diagnostic pathology. MSA Bull. 1993; 23: 253–263.
   Google Scholar
• Evans HL. Classifcation and grading of soft- tissue sarcomas. Hematol Oncol Clin North Am. 1995;9:653–656.
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Leong ASY, Wright J. The contribution of immunohistochemical staining in tumour diagnosis. Histopathology. 1987; 11: 1295–1305.
   Google Scholar
• Shelburne JD. Expanded applications for EM. VA EM News. 1994;1(2):1–2.
   Google Scholar
• Miller SE. Electron microscopy in rapid viral diagnosis. EMSA Bull. 1989;19:53–59.
   Google Scholar
• Hicks MJ, Barrish JP, Hayes ES, Leer LC, Estes MK, Cubitt WD. A rapid method for viral particle detection in viral- induced gastroenteritis: a TEM study. J Microsc Soc Am. 1995;1:185–189.
   Google Scholar
• Dardick I, Yazdi HM, Brasko C, Rippstein P, Hickey NM. A quantitative comparison of light and electron microscopic diagnoses in specimens obtained by fne- needle aspiration biopsy. Ultrastruct Pathol. 1991; 15: 105–129.
   Google Scholar
• Wills EJ, Carr S, Philips J. Electron microscopy in the diagnosis of percutaneous fne needle aspiration specimens. Ultrastruct Pathol. 1987; 11: 361–387.
   Google Scholar
• Herrera GA. Ultrastructural immunolabeling in diagnostic surgical pathology: illustrative cases. Ultrastruct Pathol. 1992;16:71–85.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Howell DN, Payne CM, Miller SE, Shelburne JD. Special techniques in diagnostic electron microscopy. Hum Pathol. 1998; 29: 1339–1346.
   Google Scholar
• Ingram P, Shelburne JD, Roggli VL, LeFurgey A, eds. Biomedical Applications of Microprobe Analysis. San Diego: Academic; 1999.
   Google Scholar
• Turbat- Herrera EA, Knowles K. Cytology: screening or diagnostic tool? Hum Pathol. 1998; 29: 1356–1366.
   Google Scholar