[Cytodiagnosis in lung diseases]

The main application of the clinical cytology in pulmonary diseases is a possibly early and certain tumour diagnostics. This is successful in 80 to 90% of the cases. The rate of the falsely positive findings is in general lower than 1%, in the own material at 0.5%. When the cytodiagnostician taken into consideration reference pictures to benign diseases and helps his clinical partner in the classification of these findings into the entire clinical pictures, the value of the cytodiagnostics increases manifold. These descriptions were confirmed by cytological pictures and of cases instances.