Although the sensitivity of exfoliative cytopathology in the diagnosis of bronchogenic carcinoma has been reported to be as low as 44 per cent,' most cytologists find malignant cells in the sputum or bronchial aspirates from three of every four patients with lung cancer, more or less.24 Most reports contain selected series of cases, since patients who have not had cytologic examinations usually...

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 commo...

48 fine needle aspiration biopsy (FNAB) samples from 25 breast cancer cases, originally used for cytodiagnosis were subjected to DNA cytometry. There were air dried smears stained with the MGG method, and samples stained with HE or PAP stain after 50% ethanol fixation and cytocentrifugation. Different sampling strategies were applied. Four methods were tested: method 1: cell groups measured, me...

The numbers of papers published between 1966 and 1990 which could be of relevance to a histopathologist were assessed. The search for papers was conducted under 18 medical subject headings using the CD-Plus Medline computerised database for the years 1966, 1978, 1982, 1986 and 1990. Between 1966 and 1990 16 categories showed an increase in the number of indexed papers and in 11 of these the inc...