Background: This study was to determine the sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value (PPV), negative predictive values (NPV) and agreement between two methods of the stained gastric imprint cytology smears and stained gastric specimen biopsy mucosal methods for detection of H. pylori. Methods: Air-dried imprint smears of gastric biopsies from 330 patients were stained by the Grunwal...

background & objectives: the accurate assessment of the diseased tissue is fundamental to the diagnosis and management of disorders of the central nervous system (cns). the ‛squash’ or ‛crush’ technique has been universally employed in the intraoperative diagnosis of cns tumors. the aim of our study was to evaluate the accuracy of squash preparation in diagnosing cns tumors by comparing wit...

BACKGROUND Northern Thailand is a region with a high cervical cancer incidence. Combined high-risk HPV (hrHPV) DNA testing and cytology (co-testing) has increasingly gained acceptance for cervical cancer screening. However, to our knowledge, data from a population-based screening using co-testing have not been available in this region. This study therefore aimed to evaluate the performance of c...

Cervical cancer is a serious disease that threatens the health of women worldwide. This study compared the sensitivities and false-positive rates of cervical cytology (Pap smear), human papilloma virus (HPV) DNA test, cervicography, first double-combined testing (cervical cytology and HPV DNA test), second double-combined testing (cervical cytology and cervicography) and triple-combined testing...

OBJECTIVES Traditionally, urine cytology has been considered as the gold standard for bladder cancer screening. However, new methods are playing new roles in these cases. In order to assess the value of cytology of voided urine we performed one comparative study between cytology and biopsy. METHODS We retrospectively analyzed the results of urine cytology and biopsy follow-up in 109 patients....

background: this study was to determine the sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value (ppv), negative predictive values (npv) and agreement between two methods of the stained gastric imprint cytology smears and stained gastric specimen biopsy mucosal methods for detection of h. pylori. methods: air-dried imprint smears of gastric biopsies from 330 patients were stained by the grunwald...

PURPOSE The role of peritoneal washing cytology in determining further treatment strategies after surgery for gastric cancer remains unclear. One reason for this is the fact that optimal procedures to increase the accuracy of predicting peritoneal metastasis have not been established. The aim of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of cytology using samples harvested from two different abdom...

Background: Abdominal cutaneous and subcutaneous nodules are uncommon benign or malignant lesions. The majority of the malignant nodules are metastatic in origin and may be the initial presentation of a primary malignancy; hence, an early diagnosis is important. Our aim of this study was to find out the spectrum of lesions (both non-neoplastic and neoplastic) that present as cutaneous and subcu...