Open AccessEfficacy of liquid-based cytology versus conventional smears in FNA samples
Author(s) -
Kalpalata Tripathy,
Aparajita Misra,
Joydip Kumar Ghosh
Publication year - 2015
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 - 10.4103/0970-9371.155225
Subject(s) - medicine , liquid based cytology , fine needle aspiration , cytology , wilcoxon signed rank test , pathology , lymph node , nuclear medicine , radiology , biopsy , mann–whitney u test , cancer , cervical cancer
Liquid-based cytology (LBC) is fast becoming a useful method in evaluating both gynecological and non-gynecological preparations, including fine needle aspiration (FNA) cytology. Even distribution of cells, decreasing obscuring background elements like blood and mucus, well preserved nuclear and cytoplasmic details and rapid fixation helps in better visualization of cells.