Frozen section and touch imprint cytology are important diagnostic procedures for surgeons during operation and must be accurate if the patient is to receive maximum benefit. To assess the accuracy of intraoperative pathologic consultation including frozen section and touch imprint cytology during a five year period (1995- 2000), a retrospective survey of 1000 consecutive cases of frozen s...

frozen section and touch imprint cytology are important diagnostic procedures for surgeons during operation and must be accurate if the patient is to receive maximum benefit. to assess the accuracy of intraoperative pathologic consultation including frozen section and touch imprint cytology during a five year period (1995- 2000), a retrospective survey of 1000 consecutive cases of frozen sectio...

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...

 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...

UNLABELLED Intra-operative imprint cytology is an important diagnostic modality in the diagnosis of thyroid lesions. A correct intra-operative diagnosis helps eliminate the need for second surgery. AIM To study diagnostic accuracy of imprint cytology and to compare the imprint cytology results with that of the corresponding paraffin section diagnosis in thyroidectomy cases. MATERIALS AND ME...

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...

The aim of the present study was to investigate whether imprint cytology can improve the diagnostic accuracy of computed tomography-guided transthoracic core biopsy. Between October 1997 and June 2004, thoracic lesions in 622 patients underwent biopsy using 19-gauge coaxial guiding needles and 20-gauge biopsy needles under computed tomography guidance. Touch imprint cytology and histopathology ...

Studies have compared the role of bone marrow aspirate cytology and trephine biopsy for diagnosing various hematological disorders but fewer studies have compared the relative value of imprint cytology with aspirate and trephine biopsy. The present study was conducted to compare the role of bone marrow aspirate, touch imprint and trephine biopsy to formulate an effective and rapid method for di...

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...