Efficiency of Manual Scanning in Recovering Rare Cellular Events Identified by Fluorescence <i>In Situ</i> Hybridization: Simulation of the Detection of Fetal Cells in Maternal Blood

<table class="table-group" id="tab1"><tr><td><table class="table"><tr><td class="thead-hr" colspan="3"><hr/></td></tr><tr class="thead"><td align="left"> Interpretation of cellular event</td><td align="center">FISH photo</td><td align="center">Giemsa photo</td></tr><tr><td class="thead-hr" colspan="3"><hr/></td></tr><tr><td align="left">Retrieved XY target<br/> (true positive cell)</td><td align="center">Present</td><td align="center">Present</td></tr><tr><td align="left">Missed event</td><td align="center">Absent</td><td align="center">Present</td></tr><tr><td align="left">Extra cell detected</td><td align="center">Present</td><td align="center">Absent</td></tr><tr class="table-tr"><td colspan="3"><hr class="tbody-hr"/></td></tr></table></td></tr></table>

Interpretation of cellular events according to the concordance of the FISH images resulting from scanning and previously taken Giemsa images.

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Table 1: Efficiency of Manual Scanning in Recovering Rare Cellular Events Identified by Fluorescence <i>In Situ</i> Hybridization: Simulation of the Detection of Fetal Cells in Maternal Blood 

Table 1 | Efficiency of Manual Scanning in Recovering Rare Cellular Events Identified by Fluorescence In Situ Hybridization: Simulation of the Detection of Fetal Cells in Maternal Blood 