The objective behind the work was to study the accuracy of imprint cytology, cyto-histological correlation and various patterns of imprint cytology of breast lesions. The study was carried out on 90 patients of breast lumps at a tertiary care hospital over a period of 2 years. A detailed clinical history and routine investigations were noted. Imprint smears were taken from the excised lumps bef...

OBJECTIVES To demonstrate that urine cytology screening can provide relevant epidemiological data for earlier detection of urothelial cancer caused by occupational exposure. DESIGN Prospective cohort study. SETTING Industries using urothelial carcinogens in France. Urine samples were collected on site, after a work week and were analysed at the University Hospital of Clermont-Ferrand, Franc...

background and objective: cutaneous cytology is the study of scraping or smears obtained from skin lesions. although not commonly employed, cutaneous cytology has been a useful tool for clinicians due to simplified procedures and high sensitivity and specificity of presurgical clinical diagnosis of common types of skin tumors. this investigation was conducted to study usefulness of cutaneous cy...

background : breast carcinoma is the most common malignant tumor and leading cause of cancer deaths in women. while fine needle aspiration cytology is highly accurate in the diagnosis of breast lesions, it possesses certain drawbacks. in those circumstances intraoperative imprint cytology assumes importance, however, imprint cytology is subjected to interpretative errors. computer image analysi...

OBJECTIVE Fine needle aspiration (FNA) cytology with thyroglobulin wash (TG-W) testing is recommended for follow-up of patients with differentiated thyroid carcinoma (DTC). The goal of this retrospective study was to determine if TG-W results contributed to the management of cases with positive FNA cytology. STUDY DESIGN We reviewed data on patients with positive and suspicious cytology resul...

BACKGROUND Screening of high-risk patients using bladder tumor markers can offer an advantage of early detection and saving medical costs. For these purpose many tumor markers have been developed to supplement invasive cystoscopy. Our study evaluated the NMP22 point-of-care test (NMP22 POCT), which is one of the tumor makers, comparing with the standard urine cytology for the diagnosis of bladd...

BACKGROUND The accuracy of cervical cytology has been questioned due to high false negative rate. In order to improve the sensitivity of cytology it is prudent to analyze the factors which hamper with the diagnosis of high grade lesions. AIMS To study the cyto-histologic agreement in High grade squamous intraepithelial lesions (HSIL) of uterine cervix and to analyze the smear characteristics ...

OBJECTIVES The aim of this study is to compare the cost and benefit of four different cervical cancer screening strategies involving primary HPV 16/18 genotyping, hrHPV testing alone and cytology for detecting CIN2 +. METHODS Economical analysis using Markov modeling approach to combine the epidemiological data from current population-based study of The National Cancer Institute of Thailand. ...

Background & Objective: Chronic non healing ulcers or scar undergoing malignant transformation is a rare phenomenon with an estimated incidence of 2%. Though, numerous predisposing factors have been identified, still it is rarely diagnosed and commonly mistaken for a benign condition. The objective of this study was to verify the efficacy of the Fine Needle Aspiration Cytology/ Scrape cytology ...

BACKGROUND: The accuracy of cervical cytology has been quwstioned due to high false negative rate. In order to improve the sensitivity of cytology it is prudent to analyze the factors which hamper with the diagnosis of high grade lesions. AIMS: To study the cyto-histologic agreement in High grade squamous intraepithelial lesions (HSIL) of uterine cervix and to analyze the smear characteristics ...