Deli R
Minerva Stomatol. 1975 May-Jun;24(3):136-57.
The literature on oral exfoliative cytology in the diagnosis of malignant lesions is reviewed and the techniques most commonly employed for the removal of material, fixing, staining and observation are described, along with the usual diagnostic criteria. Evaluation of prior comparative cytological and histological assessments of the diagnostic reliability of the means is followed by an account of the difficulties encountered when comparing results so as to form a final opinion on its possible applications. It is felt that, while exfoliative cytology cannot take the place of biopsy in making a definite assessment of the nature of a lesion, the literature shows that it is widely applied in addition of clinical evaluation of oral lesions.
本文回顾了口腔脱落细胞学在恶性病变诊断方面的文献，并描述了最常用于获取材料、固定、染色和观察的技术，以及常见的诊断标准。在对先前关于该方法诊断可靠性的细胞学和组织学比较评估进行评价之后，阐述了在比较结果以对其可能的应用形成最终意见时所遇到的困难。人们认为，虽然脱落细胞学在明确评估病变性质方面不能取代活检，但文献表明，它在口腔病变的临床评估之外得到了广泛应用。
