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Minimally Invasive Cytopathology and Accurate Diagnosis: Technical Procedures and Ancillary Techniques.

Conggai Huang, Xing Luo, Shaohua Wang, Y U Wan, Jieqiong Wang, Xiaoqin Tang, Christoph Schatz, Huiling Zhang, Johannes Haybaeck, Zhihui Yang

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Review in In vivo (Athens, Greece). The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors.

Conggai HuangDepartment of Pathology, The Affiliated Hospital of Southwest Medical University, Luzhou, P.R. China.
Xing LuoDepartment of Pathology, The Affiliated Hospital of Southwest Medical University, Luzhou, P.R. China.
Shaohua WangDepartment of Pathology, The Affiliated Hospital of Southwest Medical University, Luzhou, P.R. China.
Y U WanDepartment of Pathology, The Affiliated Hospital of Southwest Medical University, Luzhou, P.R. China.
Jieqiong WangDepartment of Pathology, The Affiliated Hospital of Southwest Medical University, Luzhou, P.R. China.
Xiaoqin TangDepartment of Pathology, The Affiliated Hospital of Southwest Medical University, Luzhou, P.R. China.
Christoph SchatzInstitute of Pathology, Neuropathology and Molecular Pathology, Medical University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria.
Huiling ZhangDepartment of Pathology, The Affiliated Hospital of Southwest Medical University, Luzhou, P.R. China.
Johannes HaybaeckInstitute of Pathology, Neuropathology and Molecular Pathology, Medical University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria; johannes.haybaeck@i-med.ac.at.
Zhihui YangDepartment of Pathology, The Affiliated Hospital of Southwest Medical University, Luzhou, P.R. China; yzhih73@126.com.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In recent years, the demand for cytopathological accurate diagnoses has increased as expanding minimally invasive procedures obtain materials from patients with advanced cancer for diagnostic, prognostic, and predictive purposes. However, inadequate knowledge of cytopathological technical procedures and ancillary techniques by clinicians remains the most common reason for the limited availability of cytopathology. The objectives of this review were to understand the technical procedures, ancillary techniques, and application and effectiveness of various types of tests in cytopathology. Each of the many ancillary technologies described in the literature has specific advantages and limitations and laboratories select one or more methods depending on their infrastructure and expertise to achieve the goal from initial screening of the disease to the final diagnosis of the cytopathology. This paper systematically reviews the development of cytopathology, summarizes the existing problems in cytopathology and the new progress of auxiliary examination, to provide a theoretical basis for the advanced development of cytopathological diagnostic technologies and to consolidate the minimally invasive and accurate diagnosis of cytopathologies for clinicians. Cytopathology offers many advantages over other clinical examinations, particularly for minimally invasive and accurate diagnosis.

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NeoplasmsCytodiagnosisHumansaccurate diagnosisancillary techniquesCytopathologyminimally invasivereviewtechnical procedures

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PMID36593030
PMCPMC9843757

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