Open AccessComparative analysis of liquid based and conventional cytology smears in fine needle aspirates from breast lesions
Author(s) -
Vasundhara Sharma,
Veena Gupta,
Padam Parmar,
Promil Jain,
Deepak Thakran,
Rajeev Sen
Publication year - 2019
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_61_18
Subject(s) - medicine , liquid based cytology , cytology , breast lumps , significant difference , fine needle aspiration cytology , fine needle aspiration , wilcoxon signed rank test , pathology , radiology , nuclear medicine , breast cancer , mann–whitney u test , biopsy , cancer , cervical cancer
Liquid-based cytology (LBC) is being extensively used for the evaluation of both gynecological and non-gynecological specimens. Suspension of cells in monolayer makes better morphological assessment possible. Along with this, inherent morphological changes such as altered, reduced, or lost background material, fragmented cell clusters, smaller cell size, nucleolar prominence, etc., need to be considered.