crush preparation cytology technique was used during the operative procedure for the diagnosis of 199 cns tumors. this technique is simple, easy to perform, rapid, and inexpensive. the cytomorphologic findings were excellent and helped achieve a rapid and correct diagnosis. this technique was used on the tiny, small specimens which were not suitable for frozen sectioning. the results were compa...

OBJECTIVE To report the results of cytology and histology obtained for a series of systematically resected thyroid nodules >or= 4 cm. METHODS A group of 151 patients with thyroid nodules >or= 4 cm was submitted to surgery despite the cytology result. RESULTS Malignancy was confirmed histologically in 22.5% of the patients. Excluding cases of insufficient material, cytology was benign in onl...

Primary human papillomavirus (HPV)-based cervical screening will be introduced in the Netherlands in 2016. We assessed the 5-year cervical (pre)cancer risk of women with different combinations of HPV and cytology test results. Special attention was paid to risks for cervical intraepithelial neoplasia grade 3 and 2 or more (CIN3+/2+) of HPV-positive women with a negative triage test, because thi...

this study has been designed to compare visual inspection of cervix with acetic acid (via test) with cytology as an accepted method for screening of cervical carcinoma and its precursors. 1200 eligible women were examined by both pap-smear and via tests in imam khomeini hospital, a referral general hospital in tehran, iran. those who had abnormal results in one or both of the screening tests (n...

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...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to assess whether peritoneal cytology has prognostic significance in uterine cervical cancer. METHODS Peritoneal cytology was obtained in 228 patients with carcinoma of the uterine cervix (International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics [FIGO] stages IB1-IIB) between October 2002 and August 2010. All patients were negative for intraperitoneal dise...

OBJECTIVE To compare two oncotic cervical cytology techniques, the conventional and the liquid-based cytology, in low risk patients for uterine cervical cancer. METHODS Comparative prospective study with 100 patients who came to their annual gynecological exam, and were submitted simultaneously to both techniques. We used the McNemar test, with a significance level of p < 0.05 to compare the ...

OBJECTIVES Most non-screen-detected cervical cancers are advanced stage. We assess the potential for cytology to expedite diagnosis when used outside of routine call and recall screening for cervical cancer. METHODS Two cohorts of women with cytology that did not appear to have been taken as part of routine screening, nested within a census of cervical cytology, in England between April 2007 ...

In women aged ≥ 30 years, Human Papillomavirus testing will replace cytology for primary cervical screening. We compared Hybrid Capture 2 (HC2), cobas, CLART, and APTIMA HPV assays with cytology on 2869 SurePath samples from women undergoing routine screening at 30-65 years in Copenhagen, Denmark. Women with cytological abnormalities were managed according to routine recommendations, with 92% c...

BACKGROUND Anal cytology has increasingly been used to screen for anal intraepithelial neoplasia (AIN) among men who have sex with men (MSM) at increased risk for anal cancer. Use of liquid-based cytology has been reported to reduce fecal and bacterial contamination and air-drying artifact compared with conventional cytology. Costs associated with liquid-based cytology, however, may limit its u...