作者
Sambit K Mohanty, Dinesh Pradhan, Shivani Sharma, Anurag Sharma, Niharika Patnaik, Martin Feuerman, Robert Bonasara, Adrienne Boyd, David Friedel, Stavros Stavropoulos, Mala Gupta
发表日期
2018/4
期刊
Diagnostic Cytopathology
卷号
46
期号
4
页码范围
293-298
简介
Background
Endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) guided fine‐needle aspiration (FNA) plays an important role in the diagnosis of various lesions. We sought to determine factors that influence the diagnostic yield of EUS–FNA, specifically, the presence of a cytopathologist, FNA site, and the endoscopist's skill.
Methods
The data on cytopathologist's availability, duration of procedure, number of passes made, and diagnostic material for cell block (CB) preparation was collected over an 18 months period.
Results
230 specimens (218 patients) were obtained from pancreas (114), lymph node (64), submucosal lesions of the gastrointestinal tract (27), liver (8), and miscellaneous (17) sites. The results were classified as informative (77.8%) and non‐informative (NI) (22.2%). The NI rate was significantly high, when a cytopathologist was absent (P = .0008). As the likelihood of cytopathologist's presence increased from 35.8 …
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