PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Ayse Güven
AU  - Safak Nur Kader
AU  - Sevda Sener Comert
AU  - Benan Caglayan
AU  - Coskun Dogan
AU  - Dilek Ece
TI  - Can the qualification of material be estimated by macroscopic appearance of the EBUS-TBNA smear?
DP  - 2014 Sep 01
TA  - European Respiratory Journal
PG  - P3724
VI  - 44
IP  - Suppl 58
4099  - http://erj.ersjournals.com/content/44/Suppl_58/P3724.short
4100  - http://erj.ersjournals.com/content/44/Suppl_58/P3724.full
SO  - Eur Respir J2014 Sep 01; 44
AB  - AIM: Without on-side pathology it is difficult to decide about the adequacy of the EBUS-TBNA material. But often assistan staff makes a comment about the qualification of material. The aim of the study is to investigate the predictability of qualification of material from the macroscopic appearence of smear material obtained by EBUS-TBNA.METHOD: Smear preperations of EBUS-TBNA materials were given points according to the macroscopic appearances from 0 to 5 by the same assitant staff in December 2013. 0 to 2 was accepted as inadequate material whereas 3 to5 was adequate material. All smears for every aspiration was sent to pathology department with different numbers. The same cytopathologist was eximined the smears without knowledge of macroscopic scores. Macroscopic evaluation of smears was compared with cytopathological results. The data obtained was eximined with SPSS 17.0 program and chi-square test.RESULTS: 110 smears obtained by different aspirations by EBUS included in study. 23(20.9%) of them were accepted macroscopically as inadequate, 87(79.1%)were adequate.There was a statistically signifficance between microscopic evaluation and lymph node reflection of the smear cytopathologically(p=0.01).CONCLUSION: With experience and good training, from the macroscopic appearence of smears obtained from EBUS-TBNA it can be estimated if the lymph node is sampled adequately. Nevertheless more studies whith larger series are necessary in this issue.