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Diagnostic efficacy of different pathologic methods for assessing tissue obtained by endoscopic ultrasound-guided
Jialiang Huang1, Yulin Liang2, Longjiang Xu3
1Department of Gastroenterology, Second Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province, China.
Aims:
The best method for processing specimens by endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine needle aspiration (EUS-FNA) has not been standardized and varies considerably between medical centers. The purpose of this study is to explore whether a combination of histologic and cytologic methods can increase the diagnostic efficacy of EUS-FNA in solid lesions around the digestive tract.
Methods:
We recruited 52 patients (65 cases total) with solid lesions around the digestive tract who underwent EUS-FNA as performed by the same endoscopic physician from December 2016 to January 2018. All the EUS-FNA specimens were processed by conventional smear cytology (CS), liquid-based cytology (LBC), cell block (CB), and histopathology. All the pathologic results were tracked to investigate the diagnostic value of the methods.
Results:
Fifty-three malignant lesions and 12 benign lesions were analyzed. The diagnostic accuracy levels of the CS, LBC, CB, and histopathology were 96.9%, 89.2%, 91.9%, and 48.1%, respectively. CS had a higher diagnostic accuracy than CB (P < 0.05) and LBC (P < 0.05). The cytologic methods had a significantly higher diagnostic accuracy than histopathology (P < 0.05). The combined diagnostic accuracy of all the methods was 100%. The diagnostic sensitivities of the CS, LBC, CB and histopathology were 96.2%, 86.8%, 90.4%, and 37.2%, respectively, and the diagnostic specificity of each of the four methods was 100%.
Conclusions:
Different pathological methods can compensate for one another, substantially improving the overall positive detection rate of EUS-FNA. Combining cytology and histology can contribute additional diagnostic efficacy to EUS-FNA in solid lesions around the digestive tract.
