title: The impact of fine-needle aspiration biopsy on a diagnostic electron microscopy laboratory.
abstract: We retrospectively reviewed the number and types of diagnostic electron microscopic specimens from a 4 1/2-year period. During this period, the number of fine-needle aspirate biopsy specimens processed increased in a linear fashion, from a relatively uncommon occurrence to the current level of activity, in which fine-needle aspiration specimens now represent 40% to 50% of the nonrenal diagnostic material examined by electron microscopy. This study documents the increasing importance of fine-needle aspirate-type specimens in the everyday operation of a diagnostic electron microscopy facility.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, East Carolina University School of Medicine, Greenville, NC 27858.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Strausbauch
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Neill
authors.forename: D J
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Dabbs
authors.forename: J F
authors.initials: JF
authors.lastname: Silverman
mesh_terms: D001707:Biopsy, Needle; D019411:Clinical Laboratory Techniques / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D008854:Microscopy, Electron