Open AccessUtility of manual liquid-based cytology and conventional smears in the evaluation of various fine-needle aspiration samples
Author(s) -
P Arul
Publication year - 2016
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 - 10.4103/0970-9371.190446
Subject(s) - medicine , fine needle aspiration , liquid based cytology , fine needle aspiration cytology , nuclear medicine , cytology , wilcoxon signed rank test , pathology , biopsy , cancer , mann–whitney u test , cervical cancer
Liquid-based cytology (LBC) preparation is a way to improve and refine the fine-needle aspiration (FNA) samples. There are a few studies comparing LBC with conventional smear (CS).