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ELECTRON MICROSCOPY OF TRANS‐THORACIC FINE NEEDLE ASPIRATION BIOPSIES
Author(s) -
Sehested Maxwell,
Francis Dorthe,
Hainau Bo
Publication year - 1983
Publication title -
acta pathologica microbiologica scandinavica series a :pathology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.909
H-Index - 88
eISSN - 1600-0463
pISSN - 0108-0164
DOI - 10.1111/j.1699-0463.1983.tb02778.x
Subject(s) - fine needle aspiration , ultrastructure , biopsy , electron microscope , pathology , medicine , microscopy , physics , optics
The purpose of the study was to find out whether electron microscopy (EM) was possible on tumour cells obtained by trans‐thoracic fine needle aspiration biopsy (FNB). In a consecutive series of 105 FNB light microscopic (LM) evaluation of the aspirate demonstrated tumour cells in 67 cases. In 43/67 cases (64%) it was possible to make an ultrastructural diagnosis on part of the FNB. In none of the 43 cases did the EM and LM of FNB diagnosis disagree as to major tumour cell type. However, in 11/43 cases EM of the FNB was able to contribute to a more specific histogenetic morphological tumour diagnosis.