PMID: 9557260Apr 29, 1998Paper

Optimization of the peritoneal lavage

Diagnostic Cytopathology
A E Walts

Abstract

Review of 275 consecutive peritoneal lavages and concurrent histologic material from gynecologic operations suggested that cytologic evaluation was clinically indicated for only 60.7% of the lavages, representing 46% of the patients in the study. More than one concurrent lavage was received from 21.6% of all patients in the study, comprising 50% of patients with malignant lavages, 18.7% of patients with benign lavages, and 5.3% of patients for whom cytologic evaluation of peritoneal lavage was not clinically indicated. Malignant cells were diagnosed in 15% of the 167 lavages for which cytologic examination was clinically indicated. In this series of patients, identification of malignant cells in peritoneal lavages did not increase the tumor stage beyond that obtained solely from examination of the concurrent histologic material. There were no false-positive cytologic diagnoses and no lavages in which neoplastic cells were misinterpreted as benign. A significant number of lavages, including several from patients with histologically confirmed peritoneal tumor, were sparsely cellular and/or excessively bloody. It is suggested that although peritoneal lavages might be collected during all gynecologic operations, only specimens from...Continue Reading

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