Shruti Bhargava
SMS Medical College, India
Title: Ovarian Neoplasms: Is fixative sediment cytology useful?
Biography
Biography: Shruti Bhargava
Abstract
The present study was conducted in the Department of Pathology, SMS Medical College, Jaipur, India, over a span of 5 years, to evaluate the role of sediment cytology of specimen fixatives, which is usually discarded. The cytological diagnosis was then compared with histological diagnosis, taking the latter as gold standard. Mostly the smears showed adequate cellularity and preserved cellular morphology. Out of total 570 cases studied, cytology labelled 277 lesions as malignant, 231 as benign and 62 lesions as inconclusive. Final histological examination proved 289 lesions as benign and 281 lesions as malignant. Sediment cytology was able to correctly diagnose 508 of 570 cases. Hence sediment cytology of specimen fixatives can be a good and cost effective complementary method to histopathology in the study of ovarian lesions, especially in places where frozen section facility is not available as it is simple, inexpensive and helps in relatively rapid diagnosis.