Open AccessRole of scrape cytology in the intraoperative diagnosis of tumor
Author(s) -
Sachin Kolte,
Rahul N Satarkar
Publication year - 2010
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 - 10.4103/0970-9371.71871
Subject(s) - cytopathology , medicine , frozen section procedure , papanicolaou stain , cytology , histopathology , radiology , gold standard (test) , pathology , fine needle aspiration cytology , surgical pathology , cytological techniques , fixation (population genetics) , cancer , population , environmental health , cervical cancer
Rapid diagnosis of surgically removed specimens has created many controversies and a single completely reliable method has not yet been developed. Histopathology of a paraffin section remains the ultimate gold standard in tissue diagnosis. Frozen section is routinely used by the surgical pathology laboratories for intraoperative diagnosis. The use of either frozen section or cytological examination alone has an acceptable rate (93-97%) of correct diagnosis, with regard to interpretation of benign versus malignant.