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The methods used to diagnose PCP are listed in Table 3. Seventy-seven of the 85 hospital admissions with PCP had induced sputum examined for P carinii; 62 (81%) were positive.
Some markers, such as sputum cytology, inherently involve ordered categories, such as no evidence of cancer, slight atypia, moderate atypia, severe atypia, and frank cancer.
Although pulmonary tissue involvement is not confirmed, most of the patients with MAC isolated from their sputum or BAL have disseminated disease.
The fact that anti-MCM2 more frequently stains metaplastic cells at the epithelial surface suggests that it is more likely than anti-Ki-67 to detect exfoliated proliferating epithelial cells in cytological specimens such as sputum.
Such precursor lesions can be detected by sputum cytology and by bronchoscopy in large airways accessible by endoscopy.