Open AccessUtility of squash smear cytology in fiber-optic bronchoscopic biopsies
Author(s) -
Sangeetha K Nayanar,
Aravindan Karumathil Puthiyaveettil,
Kumari Chandrika Bhasurangan
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
journal of cytology/journal of cytology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.267
H-Index - 19
eISSN - 0974-5165
pISSN - 0970-9371
DOI - 10.4103/0970-9371.130624
Subject(s) - medicine , papanicolaou stain , cytology , lung cancer , pathology , squash , adenocarcinoma , atypia , biopsy , radiology , cancer , cervical cancer , archaeology , history
Fiber-optic bronchoscopic biopsies yield very small bits of tissue, leading to high false negativity in lung cancer diagnosis, after paraffin embedding.