Is intraoperative touch imprint cytology of sentinel lymph nodes in patients with breast cancer cost effective?

Is intraoperative touch imprint cytology of sentinel lymph nodes in patients with breast cancer cost effective?

BACKGROUND Sentinel lymph nodes (SLNs) are generally evaluated postoperatively, requiring 5-7 days for assessment. SLNs can also be evaluated intraoperatively by using touch imprint cytology (TIC), thus providing the surgeon immediate feedback and allowing for concurrent completion node dissection (CND) for positive SLNs. The authors hypothesized that TIC, when compared with standard postoperat...

Imprint cytology of sentinel lymph nodes in breast cancer. Experience with rapid, intraoperative diagnosis and primary screening by cytotechnologists.

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the intraoperative imprint diagnoses of smears from sentinel lymph nodes that had been primary screened by cytotechnologists and to assess the most important causes of false negative (FN) imprint diagnoses. STUDY DESIGN Material consisted of 429 imprints from sentinel lymph nodes in 211 breast cancer patients that were sent for frozen section examination over 13 months. ...

Touch imprint cytology and frozen-section analysis for intraoperative evaluation of sentinel nodes in early breast cancer.

Sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) is currently the suggested axillary staging procedure in patients with early-stage breast cancer (BC) and usually requires intraoperative frozen-section (FS) examination of the removed nodes. However, other techniques, such as touch imprint cytology (IC), real-time reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction and rapid cytokeratin immunostaining on FS may be...

Retraction. Intraoperative touch imprint cytological analysis of sentinel lymph nodes for the presence of metastases in breast cancer.

Imprint cytology versus frozen section analysis for intraoperative assessment of sentinel lymph node in breast cancer

INTRODUCTION Sentinel lymph node (SLN) biopsy is the gold standard for surgical staging of the axilla in breast cancer (BC). Frozen section (FS) remains the most popular means of intraoperative SLN diagnosis. Imprint cytology (IC) has also been suggested as a less expensive and equally accurate alternative to FS. The aim of our study was to perform a direct comparison between IC and FS on the s...