Diagnostic accuracy and limitations of intraoperative cytology in diagnosis of gliomas-A two year study in a tertiary care hospital in South India (original) (raw)

Intraoperative diagnoses of a lesion achieved by cytologic methods helps a surgeon plan his surgery and alternative treatments. This is a Retrospective study conducted in Department of Neuropathology, Institute of Neurosurgery, Madras Medical College & RGGGH, Chennai to correlate squash smears with histopathology of gliomas and find out diagnostic accuracy and limitations of squash cytology.Retrospectively we analysed 254 cases of histopathologically proven gliomas.We found that the most frequent glioma in our study is glioblastomaand the diagnostic accuracy of squash smears and specificity of lesions compared with Review of literature