IMPRINT CYTOLOGY IN BONE TUMORS - A COMPREHENSIVE 3 YEAR ANALYSIS IN A TERTIARY CARE CENTRE.

Dr. Lekha .K. Nair; Dr. Deepti Ramakrishnan; Dr. Joy Augustine

Volume : VII, Issue : IV, April - 2018

IMPRINT CYTOLOGY IN BONE TUMORS - A COMPREHENSIVE 3 YEAR ANALYSIS IN A TERTIARY CARE CENTRE.

Dr. Lekha . K. Nair, Dr. Deepti Ramakrishnan, Dr. Joy Augustine

Abstract :

Primary neoplasms of bone are rare, accounting to only 0.2% of overall tumor burden in humans.Imprint cytology is a simple and rapid technique for cytological diagnosis which can even be used intraoperatively .The rapid staining procedure permits a preliminary diagnosis within 30 minutes.

We analyzed all the imprint smears of bone tumors that we received in our department from January 2014 to December 2016. All cases that had associated biopsy were included in the study. Out of the total of 94 cases 50 were primary bone tumors and 44 were metastatic bone tumors.Among the primary bone tumors, giant cell tumour was common in females (16 cases out of 26 total)osteogenic sarcoma was common in males (8 out of 12).Among the total 94 cases 18 cases could not be diagnosed correctly by cytology. Of these, 11 cases showed blood only in cytology. Among the other 7 cases, we could suggest the lesion as benign or malignant.The correlation coefficient was found to be 0.659 and a p value of 0.0001 was obtained, which is statistically significant, showing a good correlation between cytological and histopathological diagnosis.