title: [Emergency cytodiagnosis of tumors and nontumorous processes localized in the mediastinum].
abstract: The author analyzes the potentialities of emergency cytologic diagnosis of 109 mediastinal tumors and nontumorous processes. This method is rapid and simple and may be used with any type of tumors; it clearly detects the details of the cellular composition; the share of reliable findings is sufficiently high. Urgent cytologic study at the final stage of the diagnostic investigations may specify and even correct the tentative diagnosis and detect the type of the process, this promoting a rational surgical intervention and helping plan the postoperative treatment policy.
authors.forename: G A
authors.initials: GA
authors.lastname: Frolova
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003581:Cytodiagnosis; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004630:Emergencies; D005260:Female; D006689:Hodgkin Disease / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D008228:Lymphoma, Non-Hodgkin / Q000175:diagnosis*; D008297:Male; D008479:Mediastinal Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*; D008875:Middle Aged; D013945:Thymoma / Q000175:diagnosis; D013953:Thymus Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis
vernacular_title: Srochnaia tsitologicheskaia diagnostika opukholeĭ i neopukholevykh protsessov, lokalizovannykh v sredostenii.