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The utility of transbronchial (Wang) fine needle aspiration in lung cancer diagnosis
Author(s) -
Siddiqui M. T.,
Saboorian M. H.,
Gokaslan S. T.,
Lindberg G.,
Ashfaq R.
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
cytopathology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.512
H-Index - 48
eISSN - 1365-2303
pISSN - 0956-5507
DOI - 10.1046/j.1365-2303.2001.00287.x
Subject(s) - medicine , lung cancer , radiology , malignancy , aspirator , fine needle aspiration , biopsy , sampling (signal processing) , cancer , lung , pathology , physics , filter (signal processing) , computer science , computer vision , thermodynamics
The utility of transbronchial (Wang) fine needle aspiration in lung cancer diagnosis We evaluated our experience with transbronchial fine needle aspiration (TBNA) in cancer diagnosis over a period of 1 year. A total of 51 aspirates were performed by specialist chest physicians in the presence of a cytopathologist who made on spot evaluation of Diff‐Quik smears for adequacy and guided the aspirator for additional sampling if necessary. Two clusters of at least 10 malignant cells were required on the Diff‐Quik smears to render an on the spot positive diagnosis of malignancy. Aspirates showing atypical cells or few malignant cells not fulfilling the above criteria were placed in a suspicious category and additional material was requested. The TBNA results were correlated with the transbronchial biopsy when available.