background: sputum smear examination is the basis of diagnosis of tuberculosis and quality control for the correct diagno­sis of tuberculosis is necessary. this study was a method survey and performed with 930 smears with the aim to compare the confidence rate of sputum smear examination reported by one laboratory technician with the findings reported by two techni­cians in a tuberculosis scree...

BACKGROUND The Indian guidelines on following up sputum smear-negative Pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) patients differ from the current World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines in that the former recommends two follow up sputum examinations (once at the end of intensive phase and the other at the end of treatment) while the latter recommends only one follow up sputum smear microscopy examination...

With the development of thoracic surgery, accurate preoperative diagnosis of bronchogenic carcinoma has become increasingly important. It has been found that cytologic examination of sputum and bronchial secretions provides a useful adjunct to already established methods of diagnosis.’-4 Cytologic examination of sputum and bronchial secretions has been carried out in our laboratory for the past...

SETTING Twenty-four and 30 tuberculosis (TB) microscopy laboratories in Moldova and Uganda, respectively. OBJECTIVE To estimate the workload required to identify one additional case of TB with a third serial sputum smear examination. METHODS Retrospective laboratory register study to determine the prevalence and the incremental yield of TB cases from a third serial sputum smear examination ...

A 77-year-old woman who had undergone graft replacement of the descending aorta 18 years prior presented to our hospital complaining a cough with bloody sputum. She was diagnosed aortobronchial fistula by computed tomography. Thoracic endovascular aortic repair performed, and patient discharged from without any major complications. Postoperatively, sputum disappeared, tomography examination at ...

Investigations into the bacteriology of chronic bronchitis (May, 1953a and b) have shown that purulent sputum usually contains one or more pathogens and that such a sputum can be rendered mucoid, at any rate temporarily, when the patient is treated with the appropriate antibiotic. Subsequent studies (May, 1954) included patients diagnosed clinically as infected asthma, and the macroscopical app...

The inflammatory component of asthma is usually assessed indirectly by symptoms and spirometry, these may be inaccurate. It can now be assessed directly and reliably by the examination of sputum cell counts. There is no information on how clinical assessment of the presence and type of airway inflammation compares with actual measurements. In this single-centre observational study, sputum was c...