Utility of Imprint Cytology in Intraoperative Diagnosis of Ovarian Neoplasm| Chapter 6 | Perspective of Recent Advances in Medical Research Vol. 3

 Background: The ovaries are female organs and at the same time, the scene of origin of some of ultimate complex as well as deadly neoplasms.Aims: The present study was conducted to determine whether imprint cytology can help in expeditious diagnosis of ovarian abnormal growth in animate being and thus help individualized situation.Materials and Methods: This prospective study was carried out in the Department of Pathology in a after second care hospital together with Department of Gynaecology later taking Institutional ethical commission approval. Fifty victims, attending Gynaecology and Obstetrics OPD & household and diagnosed clinically & radiologically (USG) as cases of ovarian tumour was selected. After communicable valid consent from the sufferers, a detailed record was taken and clinical test was done preoperatively. Imprint smears were fashioned intraoperatively from fresh samples and tainted with M.G.G. stain for air drained smears and Papanicolaou stain for alcohol fixed smears.Results: Out of total 50 cases, 32(64%) was epithelial tumours and 18(36%) non-epithelial tumour cases. Age group different from 5 to 62 years. Overall awareness in our study to diagnose favorable and malignant ovarian tumours by imprint cytology is 94% and the particularity is 74% with helpful and negative predictive advantage of 63% and 96% respectively. Diagnostic accuracy was 78% accompanying high mathematical significance (p<0.001).Conclusion: By attractive samples from a variety of representative tumour areas, the veracity of this plan can be upgraded. Imprint cytology's veracity is on par with that of frozen portion histology. Therefore, thorough use of imprint cytology bear be made in the management of sufferers with ovarian neoplasia.

Author(s) Details:

Chhanda Das,
Department of Pathology, Burdwan Medical College, Burdwan, India.

Shivam Chakraborty,
Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education & Research (IPGME&R), West Bengal, India.

Madhumita Mukhopadhyay,
IPGMER, Kolkata, India.

Ashis Kumar Saha,
Department of Health and Family Welfare, Medical Education Services, B.S.Medical College, Bankura, India.

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