Yoneyama T, Canlas M S
Acta Cytol. 1978 May-Jun;22(3):158-61.
During the year 1975, a total of 2,877 cytologic examinations in our laboratory included 2,277 examinations on 580 patients related to pulmonary cytology. Statistical evaluation of these studies indicates that the present trend of pulmonary cytology examination is moving from "exfoliative" cytology to "diagnostic" cytology. As long as one maintains the specificity of the examination high enough by the application of stringent criteria for cytodiagnosis, further radio and/or chemotherapy can be justifiably instituted on the basis of cytologic examination along with clinical evaluation of the patients when histopathologic diagnosis is not obtainable.
1975年，我们实验室共进行了2877次细胞学检查，其中包括对580例患者进行的2277次与肺部细胞学相关的检查。对这些研究的统计评估表明，目前肺部细胞学检查的趋势正从“脱落”细胞学转向“诊断”细胞学。只要通过应用严格的细胞诊断标准将检查的特异性维持在足够高的水平，在无法获得组织病理学诊断时，就可以在对患者进行临床评估的同时，根据细胞学检查合理地开展进一步的放疗和/或化疗。
