[The puncture cytological diagnosis of neoplasms of the mediastinum (11 years of experience)].
Routinely stained cytological preparations of puncture biopsy specimens of mediastinal tumors from 870 patients are examined. Diagnostically informative material is investigated in 759 (87.3%) cases; malignant tumors are diagnosed in 538 (62%) cases, benign in 221 (25.2%). In 59 (6.8%) cases the cytological answers were descriptive, and in 52 (6%) puncture biopsy material was not informative for cytological verification. Diagnostic sensitivity of the cytological method is 94%, diagnostic specificity 71%, and diagnostic efficacy 91%.
Tuganova
T N
TN
Bolgova
L S
LS
Ganul
V L
VL
Rodzaevskiĭ
S A
SA
Klapchuk
A G
AG
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001707:Biopsy, Needle / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003581:Cytodiagnosis / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D008479:Mediastinal Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D008482:Mediastinum / Q000473:pathology*; D008875:Middle Aged; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity
Punktsionnaia tsitologicheskaia diagnostika novoobrazovaniĭ sredosteniia (11-letniĭ opyt).