Open AccessRole of squash cytology in intraoperative diagnosis of spinal lesions
Author(s) -
Manoranjan Kar,
Moumita Sengupta,
Saurav Sarkar,
Saikat Bera,
Chhanda Datta,
Uttara Chatterjee,
Subhasis Ghosh
Publication year - 2018
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/joc.joc_11_17
Subject(s) - medicine , schwannoma , gold standard (test) , cytology , predictive value , meningioma , h&e stain , radiology , pathology , staining
Squash cytology for intra operative diagnosis of central nervous system (CNS) tumors is an immensely important modality. Though its role in brain lesions is unquestionable and has been proven in a number of studies, its utility for spinal lesions is still a grey zone.