A quality improvement assessment of multiple, concurrent flow cytometry analyses at a tertiary care center.

Autor: Karnes HE; Department of Pathology & Immunology, Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA., Frater JL
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: International journal of laboratory hematology [Int J Lab Hematol] 2015 Feb; Vol. 37 (1), pp. 90-7. Date of Electronic Publication: 2014 May 09.
DOI: 10.1111/ijlh.12244
Abstrakt: Introduction: The utility of flow cytometry (FC) in diagnosis and staging of hematologic malignancy is controversial. Often, multiple specimens from the same patient are processed concurrently for FC analyses, alongside tissue for histomorphologic diagnosis.
Methods: To assess the diagnostic utility of multiple, concurrent FC analyses, a 10-year retrospective review of cases with ≥2 concurrent specimens (from the same patient) submitted for FC was conducted. Light microscopic (LM) diagnoses were compared to FC findings, and the contribution of FC results to final diagnoses was examined.
Results: Of 4058 specimens (predominantly lymph nodes, bone marrows, and oropharyngeal tissues) submitted for FC analyses, 129 (3.2%) represented cases with multiple (average: 2.19) concurrent FC analyses. All were accompanied by tissues and/or aspirates for LM examination. In 115 (89.1%) cases, multiple FC analyses were performed prior to morphologic examination. In 87.0% of those cases, ≥1 FC result(s) aligned with LM findings. In 15 (13.0%) cases where FC results differed from morphologic diagnoses, 86.7% (13/15) failed to detect an abnormal cell population by FC in the presence of a hematologic malignancy by LM. In one case (0.9%), FC detected a lymphoma, without morphologic evidence by LM.
Conclusions: Overall, multipart FC failed to demonstrate a significant contribution in initial diagnoses of hematologic malignancies compared with analysis of a single specimen.
(© 2014 John Wiley & Sons Ltd.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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