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A A Hurley

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PubMed2000

Validation and quality control of immunophenotyping in clinical flow cytometry.

Clinical flow cytometry has evolved from two-parameter quantitative assessment of peripheral blood lymphocytes to six-parameter qualitative evaluation of bone marrow for hematopathology. Leukemia and lymphoma immunophenotyping represent an extremely important complement to morphology in the diagnosis and monitoring of hematopoietic malignancies. The complexity of five- and six-parameter analyses and the interpretation of the data rely on standardization and validation of the instrument, the reagents and the procedure. In addition, flow cytometry laboratories in the U.S. are required to document proficiency testing, sample preparation, method accuracy, specificity, sensitivity and precision. NCCLS and the U.S.-Canadian Consensus Conference have provided recommendations, but each laboratory is ultimately responsible for validating its own qualitative and quantitative procedures. This paper reviews procedures for validation and quality control of all aspects of the operation of a clinical flow cytometry service.

Cell Survival↗
PubMed1996

Automated slide preparation system for the clinical laboratory.

An automated device has been developed to prepare a wide variety of cytology preparations. Using the device, cells collected in suspension are mildly dispersed and transferred to a glass slide using filter-transfer technology. The cell density on the slide is controlled by the instrument. A companion product, the solution used in specimen transport and preparation, provides long-term preservation of diagnostic cells while lysing red blood cells. The overall process yields clean, uniform samples with better visualization of the diagnostic cells. The use of a disposable filter prevents sample-to-sample contamination. Collection of the sample in solution makes it possible to produce multiple slides from one sample.

Cell Biology↗
PubMed1994

Homogeneous sampling accounts for the increased diagnostic accuracy using the ThinPrep Processor.

Recent clinical trials indicated that the ThinPrep method of sample preparation has greater diagnostic sensitivity than the conventional direct Papanicolaou smear. The authors hypothesized that nonhomogeneous cell sampling during transfer from the sampling device to the microscope slide was a contributing factor to the reduced accuracy of the conventional direct Pap smears in these trials. To test this hypothesis, four direct smear methods were compared with the newly developed, fluid-based, filter-transfer method. Counts of epithelial cells on conventional smears showed that only a fraction of the available epithelial cells on the sampling devices (medians, 6.5% to 62.5%) was actually deposited on the slides. In all 27 cases studied with the ThinPrep method, equivalent diagnostic material was obtained on each of the replicate slides prepared per specimen. This identifies a new source of error, preparation error, in conventional smears.

Cell Biology↗