Diagnostic utility of cell-block from bronchial washing in pulmonary neoplasms

✍ Scribed by Maria Luisa Calabretto; Linda Giol; Sandro Sulfaro

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 196 KB
• Volume: 15
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 8755-1039
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-0339(199609)15:3<191::aid-dc3>3.0.co;2-k

✦ Synopsis

In order to evaluate the usefulness of cell-block (CB) from bronchial washing in the diagnosis ofpulmonary neoplasms

, we examined cytological samples of I , 145 bronchoscopies; CBs could be prepared in 777cases (67.9%) and 201 cases, positive or suspicious for malignancy, were selected for the study (1 73/201 smears: 86. I %: 174/201 CBs: 86.6%). CBs were positive in 12 cases while the corresponding smears were negative (10 cases) or suspicious (2 cases): 2 cases had suspicious CBs with negative smears.

Thus, the use of CBs increased the positive diagnosis from 173 to 185 cases, for an increase of 6.5%. We can conclude that CB could be a routine, inexpensive method, helpful in pulmonary neoplasm's diagnosis; moreover, CB has the advantage of being an histologic specimen, ofen the only one, useful for other diagnostic procedures.